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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: William Pietz in the 1980s | Francesco Pellizzi -- An Introduction to the Sheer Incommensurable Togetherness of the Living Existence of the Personal Self and the Living Otherness of the Material World | Stefanos Geroulanos and Ben Kafka -- Editorial Note -- 1. The Problem of the Fetish -- The Problem of the Fetish -- The Truth of the Fetish -- The Historical Field of the Fetish -- 2. The Origin of the Fetish -- Facticius in Christian Theology: Idolatry and Superstition -- Feitiçaria in Christian Law: Witchcraft and Magic -- Feitiço in Portuguese Guinea -- Fetisso: Origin of the Idea of the Fetish -- 3. Bosman's Guinea and Enlightenment Discourse -- The Discourse about Fetissos on the Guinea Coast -- African "Fetish Worship" and Mercantile Ideology -- 4. Charles de Brosses and the Theory of Fetishism -- De Brosses's Theory of Fetishism: The Hermeneutic of the Human Sciences and the Problem of Metaphor -- Anti-universalist Hermeneutics -- The Rhetoric of Fetish Worship in the French Enlightenment -- 5. Fetishism and Materialism: The Limits of Theory in Marx -- The Semiological Reading of Marx -- Marx and the Discourse about Fetishism -- Religious Fetishism and Civil Society: The Critique of Hegel -- Economic Fetishism: Marx on Capital -- 6. The Spirit of Civilization: Blood Sacrifice and Monetary Debt -- African Fetishism and the Spirit of Civilization -- Fetishism during the Colonial Conquest and the Problem of Human Sacrifice -- Fetishism under Colonial Law and the Problem of Fatal Accidents -- Debt, Fetishism, and Sacrifice as Concepts for Comparative Studies -- 7. Death of the Deodand: Accursed Objects and the Money Value of Human Life -- The Unfortunate Death of the Honourable William Huskisson -- Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Problem of the Deodand.

"The Problem of the Fetish gathers William Pietz's innovative writing on the fetish object and the history of the "fetish" as a concept. Engaging extensively with historical documents, Pietz traces the genealogy of fetishism from encounters between European colonizers and African communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emerging social sciences. Discussing the role of fetishism in anthropology, political economy, psychiatry, and law, he analyzes the relationship between the fetish and value, violence, sacrifice, and debt. To accompany Pietz's seven essays, this long-awaited volume includes a foreword by Francesco Pellizzi, editor of RES, the journal in which several of the essays originally appeared, and it also includes an introduction by Stefanos Geroulanos and Ben Kafka, who provide an invaluable guide to Pietz's thought. This book will speak to Pietz's multidisciplinary readership, continuing his legacy of engaging with questions of material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introducing the work of a powerful theorist to new generations of scholars and thinkers"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Everything Diverges -- Introduction: Decency and Debasement -- Dreaming of Better Times: ''Repetition with a Difference'' and Community Policing in China -- Constructing Perry's ''Chinaman'' in the Context of Adorno and Benjamin -- Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s -- Making Time: Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality -- Aesthetics and Chinese Marxism -- TheWorld Conception of Japanese Social Science: The Kōza Faction, theO¯ tsuka School, and the Uno School of Economics -- ''And TheyWould Start Again'': Women and Struggle in Korean Nationalist Literature -- Spring, Temporality, and History in Li Dazhao -- Spring -- The Probable Defeat: Preliminary Notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution -- Interpreting Revolutionary Excess: The Naxalite Movement in India -- Marxism, Anti-Americanism, and Democracy in South Korea: An Examination of Nationalist Intellectual Discourse -- ''Who Am I?''—Questions of Voluntarism in the Paradigm of Socialist Alienation -- Contributors -- Index