Fredric Jameson: 82 books
Peixe-elétrico #02
Jameson
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Nesta edição de Peixe-elétrico: A estética da singularidade – FREDRIC JAMESON Fredric Jameson volta a pensar a arte contemporânea em texto publicado originalmente na revista New Left Review. Autor de um estudo que influenciou gerações posteriores – Pós-modernismo, ou a lógica cultural...
Jameson on Jameson
Conversations on Cultural Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Fredric Jameson is one of the most influential literary and cultural critics writing today. He is a theoretical innovator whose ideas about the intersections of politics and culture have reshaped the critical landscape across the humanities and social sciences. Bringing together ten interviews conducted...
The Ancients and the Postmoderns
On the Historicity of Forms
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire
High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson’s major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against...
The Political Unconscious
Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Fredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context. He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a supplement...
Marxism and Form
20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter...
The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages
On the Unwritten History of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should—indeed must—reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his Legitimacy of the Modern Age describes the "modern age" as a complete departure from the...
An American Utopia
Dual Power and the Universal Army
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers
Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal conscription,...
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity .
The Modernist Papers is a tour...
The Hegel Variations
On the Phenomenology of Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Master philosopher and cultural theorist tackles the founder of modern dialectics
In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel’s foundational text Phenomenology of Spirit.
In contrast to those who see the Phenomenology...
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound...
A Singular Modernity
Essay on the Ontology of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this intervention, Fredric Jameson—perhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernity—excavates and explores these notions in...
by Jean-Paul Sartre, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Jean-Paul Sartre, at the height of his powers, debates with Italy’s leading intellectuals
In 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. In attendance were some of Italy’s leading Marxist thinkers, such as Enzo Paci,...
The Insubordination of Signs
Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile’s neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1990), and she has continued...