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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By Silvia Federici

Book information

Publisher
Autonomedia
Year
2004
ISBN
1570270597, 9781570270598
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (14022930 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
288\329
Time added
2018-03-26 09:44:50
Historical Study & Educational Resources;ArchaeoloWitchcraft & Paganism;New Age & Spirituality;Relig

Description

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization. "It is both a passionate work of memory recovered and a hammer of humanity's agenda."—Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged

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