Bourgeois and the Savage

Alfonso Maurizio Iacono is Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Pisa, Italy. He is the author of numerous books including Le Fétichisme: Histoire d’un Concept (1992), Autonomia, Potere, Minorità (2000), Caminhos de Saida do Estado de Menoridade (2001), The History and Theory of Fetishism (2016), and Studi su Karl Marx (2018).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Robinson Crusoe's Adventure on the Island: from the Isolated Economy to Political Supremacy.- 3. An attempt to explain the theory of value: Turgot's simplification.- 4. "The rude state of society": and the reason of abundance: Adam Smith's model.- 5. Political Philosophy on "The Gift": Sahlin's Interpretation.