FETISHISM, SACRIFICE AND CONSUMPTION

• Grant number: 11/05442-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Marilena de Souza Chauí
• Grantee: Fabricio Fernandes Armond
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Nowadays, there are some practices that seem, in the midst of a so called "consumption society", to contradict the imperative of a "search for pleasure" and ritualize the self-inflicted body suffering. Our hypothesis is that, although this fact may be considered as a kind of reaction against the contemporary way of life, related to the phenomena that Marx had described as "fetishism", it is still given in a fetishist form.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ARMOND, Fabricio Fernandes. Self-sacrifice: self-formation and self-dissolution in the contemporaneity. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.