The History and Theory of Fetishism (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) - 9781137541147

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 attempts to simultaneously destabilize and look at his/her own world critically.

• | Author: Alfonso Maurizio Iacono
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 05, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 211 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1137541148
• | ISBN-13: 9781137541147