The fetish of theology : the challenge of the fetish-object to modernity / Colby Dickinson.
2020
GN472
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Title
The fetish of theology : the challenge of the fetish-object to modernity / Colby Dickinson.
Author
Dickinson, Colby, author.
ISBN
9783030407759 (electronic book)
3030407756 (electronic book)
3030407748
9783030407742
3030407756 (electronic book)
3030407748
9783030407742
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
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1 online resource.
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GN472
Dewey Decimal Classification
202/.1
Summary
By delving into the history of the fetish-object among both modern and contemporary commentators, this book highlights the fetish-objects role as a philosophical and religious concept of the highest significance. Historically, fetishes are implicated in specific struggles for sovereign (political) and/or religious (hierarchical) power, with their interwoven symbols defined as the primary location for transcendence in our world. This book defines the political consequences of fetish-objects within a western cultural, and primarily theological context through a comparative approach of various literatures on fetish-objectsanthropological to the psychological, Marxist to the theological. It reconceives of fetishes as a form of resistance to oppressive structures, something which motivated Christians themselves historically, and shaped our western understanding of the sacraments far more than has been acknowledged. Taking up this conversation likewise holds forth the possibility of reconceptualizing how fetish-objects and sacramental presences both speak profoundly to our late-modern selves.
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Radical theologies and philosophies.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. A Genealogy of the Sacrament-Fetish Divide
3. Marx on Commodity and Capital Fetishism
4. Fetishism as Psychological Compensation for a Lack
5. Critical Theory and the Liberating Potential of the Fetish
6. Beyond Representation: Is There Nothing Outside the Fetish?
7. New Paths for the Theological and the Fetishistic
8. Conclusion.
2. A Genealogy of the Sacrament-Fetish Divide
3. Marx on Commodity and Capital Fetishism
4. Fetishism as Psychological Compensation for a Lack
5. Critical Theory and the Liberating Potential of the Fetish
6. Beyond Representation: Is There Nothing Outside the Fetish?
7. New Paths for the Theological and the Fetishistic
8. Conclusion.