Fetish Revisited

J. Lorand Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European social theory to show how Marx's and Freud's conceptions of the fetish illuminate and misrepresent the nature of Africa’s gods while demonstrating that Afro-Atlantic gods have their own social logic that is no less rational than European social theories.

J. Lorand Matory arunca un ochi afro-atlantic asupra teoriei sociale europene pentru a arata cum conceptiile lui Marx si Freud despre fetis lumineaza si denatureaza natura zeilor din Africa, demonstrand in acelasi timp ca zeii afro-atlantici au propria lor logica sociala care nu este mai putin rationala Teoriile sociale europene.