Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. “Fetishism (Supposing That It Existed)”: A Preface to the Translation of Charles de Brosses’s Transgression vii
4. Introduction: Fetishism, Figurism, and Myths of Enlightenment 1
5. A Note on the Translation 40
6. On the Worship of Fetish Gods: Or, A Parallel of the Ancient Religion of Egypt with the Present Religion of Nigritia 44
7. After de Brosses: Fetishism, Translation, Comparativism, Critique 133
8. A Fetiche Is a Fetiche: No Knowledge without Difference 136
9. Of the Word: Rereading de Brosses 138
10. Excursus: Recontextualizing de Brosses, with Pietz in and out of Africa 153
11. Re: Kant and the Good Fetishists among Us 166
12. Hegel: Back to the Heart of Darkness 179
13. Fetishism against Itself; or, Marx’s Two Fetishisms 187
14. The Great Fetish; or, The Fetishism of the One 204
15. Freud and the Return to the Dark Continent: The Other Fetish 209
16. Conjuncture: Freud and Marx, via Lacan 220
17. Anthropology’s Fetishism: The Custodianship of Reality 241
18. Fetishism Reanimat ed: Surrealism, Ethnography, and the War against Decay 256
19. Deconstruction’s Fetish: Undecidable, or the Mark of Hegel 270
20. Rehistoricizing Generalized Fetishism: The Era of Objects 283
21. Anthropological Redux: The Reality of Fetishism 292
22. The Fetish Is Dead, Long Live Fetishism 309
23. Acknowledgments 321
24. Notes 323
25. Bibliography 391
26. Index 419