The fetish revisited
Subtitle: Marx, Freud, and the gods Black people make
By: J. Lorand Matory
Contributors: Duke University Press
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781478000754; 9781478001058
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Fetishism; Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A note on orthography; title: Part I. The factory, the coat, the piano, and the "Negro slave": on the Afro-Atlantic sources of Marx's fetish; title: The Afro-Atlantic context of historical materialism; title: The "Negro slave" in Marx's labor theory of value; title: Marx's fetishization of people and things; title: Conclusion to part I; title: Part II. The acropolis, the couch, the fur hat, and the "savage": on Freud's ambivalent fetish; title: The fetishes that assimilated Jewish men make; title: The fetish as an architecture of solidarity and conflict; title: The castrator and the castrated in the fetishes of psychoanalysis; title: Conclusion to part II; title: Pots, packets, beads, and foreigners: the making and the meaning of the real-life "fetish"; title: The contrary ontologies of two revolutions; title: Commodities and gods; title: The madeness of gods and other people; title: Conclusion to part III; title: Conclusion: Eshu's hat, or an Afro-Atlantic theory of theory.