Publication at Catholic Theological Faculty |
2022
Abstract
The paper summarizes the "fetishistic", material, index and intimate nature of traces and mementos relating to modern "idols", to celebrated figures involved in culture, politics, science or social life. In connection with the new concept of individuality and the role of the subject at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, there was also a growing interest in memorial objects, which might be described as modern-day relics or fetishes.