Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici, Penguin Classics
Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici, Penguin Classics A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in…
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Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici, Penguin Classics
A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. It Is a study of indigenous traditions crushed, of the enclosure Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalism and the colonisation of the Americas, it gives a panoramic account of the often horrific violence with which the unruly human material of pre-capitalist societies was transformed into a set of predictable and controllable mechanisms.