The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
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南美洲的魔鬼与商品拜物教
DOI：
10.2307/540950
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发表时间：
1982
影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
M. Taussig
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作者：
M. Taussig
在这本经典著作中，迈克尔·陶西格探讨了南美洲当代种植园工人和矿工民间传说中魔鬼的社会意义。基于他对马克思主义理论的分析，陶西格发现，以魔鬼的形象对邪恶的拜物教化，调解了前资本主义和资本主义将人类状况客观化的模式之间的冲突。他将传统的魔鬼契约叙事（灵魂被用来交换虚幻或短暂的权力）与资本主义经济中的生产导致工人与他们生产的商品疏远的方式联系起来。这一周年纪念版的一个新章节的特点是讨论了沃尔特本杰明和乔治巴塔耶，扩展了陶西格的想法关于魔鬼契约的比喻。
In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. He links traditional narratives of the devil-pact, in which the soul is bartered for illusory or transitory power, with the way in which production in capitalist economies causes workers to become alienated from the commodities they produce. A new chapter for this anniversary edition features a discussion of Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille that extends Taussig's ideas about the devil-pact metaphor.