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Troubles with Materiality: The Ghost of Fetishism in the Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2000

Tomoko Masuzawa
Tomoko Masuzawa
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Abstract

The theological period of humanity could begin no otherwise than by a complete and usually very durable state of pure Fetichism [sic], which allowed free exercise to that tendency of our nature by which Man conceives of all external bodies as animated by a life analogous to his own, with differences of mere intensity.

Auguste Comte, Cours (1830Ð1842)

Type
Research Article
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 242 - 267
Copyright
© 2000 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History

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