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By Michael T. Taussig

ISBN-10: 0807871338

ISBN-13: 9780807871331

during this vintage e-book, Michael Taussig explores the social importance of the satan within the folklore of up to date plantation employees and miners in South the US. Grounding his research in Marxist thought, Taussig reveals that the fetishization of evil, within the photograph of the satan, mediates the clash among precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human . He hyperlinks conventional narratives of the devil-pact, during which the soul is bartered for illusory or transitory strength, with the way creation in capitalist economies reasons employees to turn into alienated from the commodities they produce. a brand new bankruptcy for this anniversary variation incorporates a dialogue of Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille that extends Taussig's rules in regards to the devil-pact metaphor.

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