The Returns of FetishismFor more than 250 years, Charles de Brossess term fetishism has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to magic, but nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brossess term has proved indispensable to thinkers as diverse as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Derrida. With this book, Daniel H. Leonard offers the first fully annotated English translation of the text that