The Problem of the Fetish - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Problem of the Fetish write by William Pietz. This book was released on 2022-11-18. The Problem of the Fetish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism. In recent decades, William Pietz’s innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered here, for the first time, is his complete series of essays on fetishism, supplemented by three texts on Marx, blood sacrifice, and the money value of human life. Tracing the idea of the fetish from its origins in the Portuguese colonization of West Africa to its place in Enlightenment thought and beyond, Pietz reveals the violent emergence of a foundational concept for modern theories of value, belief, desire, and difference. This book cements Pietz’s legacy of engaging questions about material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introduces a powerful theorist to a new generation of thinkers.
The Fetish Revisited
The Fetish Revisited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fetish Revisited write by J. Lorand Matory. This book was released on 2018-10-04. The Fetish Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term “fetishism” chiefly to assert the irrationality of their fellow Europeans. Yet, as J. Lorand Matory demonstrates in The Fetish Revisited, Afro-Atlantic gods have a materially embodied social logic of their own, which is no less rational than the social theories of Marx and Freud. Drawing on thirty-six years of fieldwork in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European theory to show how Marx’s and Freud’s conceptions of the fetish both illuminate and misrepresent Africa’s human-made gods. Through this analysis, the priests, practices, and spirited things of four major Afro-Atlantic religions simultaneously call attention to the culture-specific, materially conditioned, physically embodied, and indeed fetishistic nature of Marx’s and Freud’s theories themselves. Challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of gods and theories, Matory offers a novel perspective on the social roots of these tandem African and European understandings of collective action, while illuminating the relationship of European social theory to the racism suffered by Africans and assimilated Jews alike.
Dancing Theology in Fetish Boots
Dancing Theology in Fetish Boots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dancing Theology in Fetish Boots write by Lisa Isherwood. This book was released on 2010. Dancing Theology in Fetish Boots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Marcella Althaus-Reid was one of the most fascinating and controversial theologians of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Her strong personality and her iconoclastic work inspired a whole generation of theologians in the UK and worldwide. Marcella's creative life was cut short by her death from cancer in 2009. Yet she lives on, not least in those who have been inspired by her work and continue to engage with it. "Dancing Theology in Fetish Boots" draws together a number of world-class scholars and others who engage with the main themes of Marcella's work and show how the critical and controversial conversations which Marcella has begun can and do continue. It is therefore far more than a Festschrift, but a celebration of an intellectual life Marcella-style.
Domination, fetish and dark healing
Domination, fetish and dark healing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Domination, fetish and dark healing write by Kattana Black. This book was released on . Domination, fetish and dark healing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kattana Black is a project designed to give everyone a path to personal freedom and to help all those who cannot find their place to find the right one. The basic idea of the project is that all people are unique and can become magnificent if they find their own talent and expose it in a suitable environment. No one and nothing is ordinary. Everyone and everything has the right to become extraordinary. Octavia Ecaterina Berinde and Nektarios Manoukarakis are the creators of this project. Two people who have combined their individual qualities and decided to use them to help others find themselves. Claudiu Raduica is the image creator of this project, a talented young artist, who knows that talent comes from passion, and passion comes from within everyone, and he dares to show all this in his work. All those whose task is to guide consciences are afraid! They fear that their influence on souls, who need to perceive the sensation of existence, will be understood clearly, and that their mask of wisdom will be shattered… It is reassuring to say we know and know, to impose this, but our words are often real daggers, ready to slice into the flesh in order to create heroes and truths. (Daniel Meurois)
The Fetish of Theology
The Fetish of Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fetish of Theology write by Colby Dickinson. This book was released on 2020-03-26. The Fetish of Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By delving into the history of the fetish-object among both modern and contemporary commentators, this book highlights the fetish-object’s role as a philosophical and religious concept of the highest significance. Historically, fetishes are implicated in specific struggles for sovereign (political) and/or religious (hierarchical) power, with their interwoven symbols defined as the primary location for transcendence in our world. This book defines the political consequences of fetish-objects within a western cultural, and primarily theological context through a comparative approach of various literatures on fetish-objects—anthropological to the psychological, Marxist to the theological. It reconceives of fetishes as a form of resistance to oppressive structures, something which motivated Christians themselves historically, and shaped our western understanding of the sacraments far more than has been acknowledged. Taking up this conversation likewise holds forth the possibility of reconceptualizing how fetish-objects and sacramental presences both speak profoundly to our late-modern selves.
