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

by Silvia Federici

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570270597
• ISBN13: 9781570270598
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Autonomedia
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Re-ordering physical copy of the book, but this particular book has an issue with printing

FYI: Many of the pages are barely legible due to some kind of printing error with the ink fading/light grey rather than black. This doesn't appear to be intentional as it is randomly spread out across the volume. The package was also delayed/lost during shipping so it took over two weeks to arrive.