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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The History and Theory of Fetishism, the expanded version of Iacono's enduring classic Teorie del feticismo and available for the first time in English, aims to provide the historical context necessary to understanding the concept of "fetishism" and offers an overview of the ideologies, prejudices, and critical senses that shaped the Western observer's view of otherness and of his own world. Iacono examines the moment when the Western observer turned his colonizing and evangelizing gaze to continents such as Africa and the Americas, while attempting to simultaneously destabilize and look at his own world critically.
About the author
Alfonso Maurizio Iacono holds a chair in History of Philosophy at the University of Pisa, Italy. He also taught at the Université de Paris 1 (Sorbonne-Panthéon), France. Formerly a Dean of the Faculty of Letters, he is currently Director of the Pisa University Museum Network. His research areas of interest are the relationship between philosophy, politics and anthropology, with an emphasis on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century debates.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The History and Theory of Fetishism
Authors: Alfonso Maurizio Iacono
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137541154
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54114-7Published: 05 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-57580-0Published: 05 June 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54115-4Published: 08 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 202
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Sociological Theory, Political History, Sociology, general