Charles De Brosses: 2 books
The Returns of Fetishism
Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
For more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses’s 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 Brosses’s term has proved indispensable to thinkers as diverse...
by Charles de Brosses, Stendhal, Eduardo Gil Bera
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2015
El sábado 30 de mayo de 1739, De Brosses partió a Italia, en un viaje de estudio y placer que duraría hasta la primavera de 1740. En Bolonia conoció al papa Clemente, al químico Beccari y al astrónomo Zanotti; departió en Florencia con los eruditos Cerati y Niccolini. Visitó en Módena al...