Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: William Pietz in the 1980s vii
4. An Introduction to the Sheer Incommensurable Togetherness of the Living Existence of the Personal Self and the Living Otherness of the Material World xiii
5. Editorial Note xxxi
6. 1. The Problem of the Fetish 1
7. 2. The Origin of the Fetish 22
8. 3. Bosman’s Guinea and Enlightenment Discourse 64
9. 4. Charles de Brosses and the Theory of Fetishism 96
10. 5. Fetishism and Materialism: The Limits of Theory in Marx 115
11. 6. The Spirit of Civilization: Blood Sacrifice and Monetary Debt 140
12. 7. Death of the Deodand: Accursed Objects and the Money Value of Human Life 166
13. Acknowledgments 187
14. Notes 189
15. Bibliography 213
16. Index 229