Translator's Note -- Introduction -- 1 The horseshoe -- 2 Corrupt fetishism: a nineteenth-century invention -- 3 How to philosophise with a hammer -- 4 The contradictions of modernity -- 5 Historical development -- 6 The status of theory -- 7 Fetishism, ethnology, cultural studies -- 8 A book is never alone -- 9 Acknowledgements -- I Now That's Some Thing - An Introduction to the World of Things -- 1 The Bartelby effect -- 2 "The rebellion of things" -- 3 "The Cares of a Family Man" -- 4 "Where a thing ends and where it begins" -- 5 Phenomenology of things -- 5.1 Edmund Husserl -- 5.2 Martin Heidegger -- 6 Humans - things - collectives -- 6.1 Bruno Latour's approach -- 6.2 Who acts? -- 6.3 Articulated things -- 6.4 Fetish - factum - factish -- 7 Lifeworld and material culture -- 7.1 "That the things have us, and that it is not we who have the things" -- 7.2 The evolution of functional objects? -- 8 The order of things -- 8.1 Function -- 8.2 Meaning -- 8.3 Aesthetics -- 8.4 Abundance -- 8.5 Dedifferentiation -- 8.5.1 Last things -- 8.5.2 Melancholy and asceticism -- 8.5.3 Chaos - chora - rubbish -- 9 On the disappearance of things -- 9.1 "Pseudoreality Prevails" -- 9.2 Everything disappears -- 9.3 Around 1900: fragmentation and electricity -- 9.4 Speed -- 9.5 "Super-American city" -- 9.6 Digital networks -- II Fetishism in Religion and Ethnography -- 1 Forbidden images and anti-idolatry -- 1.1 Biblical traditions -- 1.2 The Church Fathers -- 1.3 Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Cusa -- 2 Relics and statues: magical Christian images -- 2.1 The relic's spell -- 2.2 The cult of images and effigies -- 3 The ethnographic prehistory of fetishism -- 4 The magical thingly quality of fetishes -- 5 Concepts of fetishism in the Enlightenment and the early nineteenth century.

5.1 Charles de Brosses: writing-desk inventions -- 5.2 Hermann Andreas Pistorius: Protestant reactions -- 5.3 Philipp Christian Reinhard: embodiment and representation -- 5.4 Christoph Meiners: disorder and classification -- 5.5 Overview of the philosophers -- 5.6 Auguste Comte: the primal positivity of fetishism -- 6 On the path to ethnology -- 6.1 Max Müller: the condemnation of fetishism -- 6.2 Theodor Waitz: the confused worship of images -- 6.3 Edward B. Tylor: animism and fetishism -- 6.4 Adolf Bastian: colonialism and self-reflection -- 6.5 Fritz Schultze: trifles of the primitive mind -- 7 Magic and modernity -- 7.1 Marcel Mauss: the theory of magic -- 7.2 Aby Warburg: a theory of modernity in memory of its collapse -- 8 Nail fetish pilgrimage: magic and politics -- 9 Political idolatry -- 9.1 Fetishes, idols, power -- 9.2 The cult of Stalin und Stalinist architecture -- 9.3 Stalin the idol -- 9.4 Charismatic leadership -- 9.5 The Palace of the Soviets -- III Commodity Fetishism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The exchange of gifts and sacred things (Marcel Mauss, Maurice Godelier) -- 3 Inalienable things -- 4 The discovery of commodity fetishism in Karl Marx -- 4.1 Mystifications of criticism? -- 4.2 The slow discovery of fetishism in Marx -- 4.3 From Marx's early writings to Capital -- 4.4 The fetishism of the commodity and its secret -- 4.5 The fetishisation of fetishism in Marx -- 4.6 Beyond Marx -- 5 Reification and the culture industry -- 6 Consumer culture and fetishism -- 6 Inalienable things: collections, museums, memory -- IV Fetishism, Sexuality and Psychoanalysis -- 1 Sexology and its mythical fathers -- 2 Alfred Binet: the discovery -- 3 Richard Krafft-Ebing: collections of fetishists -- 4 Excursus on the rhetorical form of fetishism -- 5 Sigmund Freud: winding paths to fetishism.

6 Fetishism as metapsychological concept -- 7 Wilhelm Stekel: theatricality and religion -- 8 After Freud: the differentiation of fetishism -- 8.1 Melanie Klein: presymbolic origins -- 8.2 Jacques Lacan and the phallus - with an excursus on primordial murder -- 8.3 Joan Riviere: womanliness as masquerade -- 8.4 Donald W. Winnicott and his followers -- 8.5 M. Masud R. Khan: alienation as perversion -- 8.6 Psychoanalysis of fetishism - fetishes of psychoanalysis -- 9 Cultural developments and feminist discoveries -- 9.1 The failures of psychoanalysis -- 9.2 She has, she bears, she is the fetish - but whose? - Marcia Ian -- 9.3 Intellectual fetishes - fetishes of intellectualism -- 9.4 Feminism and the criticism of fetishism -- 9.5 Food fetishism -- 9.6 Fashion and fetishism -- 9.7 Film and fetishism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.