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Fredric Jameson has been described as "probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today" and he is widely acknowledged as the foremost proponent for the tradition of critical theory known as Western Marxism.Yet his work has not been given the systematic review like other contemporary thinkers like Fooucault and Derrida.
Fredric Jameson: Marxism,Hermeneutics, Postmodernism is a thoroughly up-to-date, detailed review and analysis of the work of this influential intellectual. Covering Jameson's work and thought from his early projects of form and history to his more recent engagements with postmodernism and cultural politics, this synthesis offers a balanced assessment of his ideas, their development and their continuing influence.
Contents
Introduction Sartre: From Situation to History 1 The Dialectics of Form The Logic of Form The Logic of Content Metacommentary 2 History: The Political Unconscious Marxism and Historicism History as Political Unconscious History as Narrative History as Whose Narrative? 3 The Politics of Desire Ideologies of Pleasure Ideologies of Desire The Production of Desire Versions of a Libidinal Apparatus The Dialectic of Ideology and Utopia 4 Postmodernism and Late Capitalism The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism The Periodization of Late Capitalism Video Art and Postmodern Textuality Realism -- Modernism -- Postmodernism The Dialetic of Modernism and Postmodernism 5 The Spatial Logic of Late Capitalism The Reassertion of Space in Social Theory The Phenomenology of Postmodernism The Social Production of Space The Semiotics of Space The Spatio-Temporal Dialectic of Modernity and Postmodernity 6 Marxism, Totality and the Politics of Difference The Postmodern Critique of Totality Marxism and Totality Mediation and Reification The 'Third World': Identity and Difference Conclusion Marxism and/or Postmodernism? Mediation and Cultural Politics
