A Sense of Things

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Idea of Things and the Ideas in Them
1. The Tyranny of Things
Fetishisms
Object Lessons
A Trivial Thing
Democratic Objects
2. The Nature of Things
Iteration
Creatures of Habit
Possession
The Miracle of History
Misuse Value
3. Regional Artifacts
Natural Histories
Life-Groups and the Cultural Thing
Material History
"A Kind of Fetichism"
Waste Matter
Modernist Archeology
4. The Decoration of Houses
Décor
The Novel Démeublé
Reification as Utopia
Things to Think With
Golden Bowls
Coda: The Death and Life of Things: Modernity and Modernism
Notes
Index