Fredric Jameson: 82 books
Masculine/Feminine
Practices of Difference(s)
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 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...
The Abyss of Representation
Marxism and the Postmodern Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
From the Copernican revolution of Immanuel Kant to the cognitive mapping of Fredric Jameson to the postcolonial politics of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, representation has been posed as both indispensable and impossible. In his pathbreaking work, The Abyss of Representation, George Hartley traces the...
Representing Capital
A Reading Of Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson’s first book-length engagement with Marx’s magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx’s thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictions that...
Raymond Chandler
The Detections of Totality
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint...
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form
Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as solving them!)...
Postmodernismo
Ovvero la logica culturale del tardo capitalismo
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Esce finalmente anche in Italia il saggio più venerato, odiato, discusso, citato e frainteso degli ultimi quindici anni. L’indubbio capolavoro di uno degli intellettuali più acuti e irriverenti della nostra epoca. Nelle sue varianti terminologiche e concettuali (postmoderno, postmodernismo, postmodernità),...
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
“Ningún estudioso de la literatura puede igualar la versatilidad, la erudición enciclopédica, el brío imaginativo o la prodigiosa energía intelectual de Jameson. En una época en la que la crítica literaria, como tantas otras cosas, ha sufrido cierto declive, y en la que tristemente son poquísimas...
The Cinema of Economic Miracles
Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2002
The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet rarely has this cinema been considered in relation to the profound economic and cultural changes that transformed Italy during the sixties--described as the “economic miracle.” Angelo Restivo argues for...
by Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism...
Lines of Flight
Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism—the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and specialization in the workplace, standardization at all levels of social life, and the growing influence of the mass media—all point to a transformation...
Questions of Travel
Postmodern Discourses of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 1996
Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel—displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces...
Dark Continents
Psychoanalysis and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2003
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a “dark continent” for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis led theorists to reject its relevance for postcolonial...
The Revival of Pragmatism
New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1998
Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism—with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth—lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War. Since...
Theodor W. Adorno
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) was one of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers. In light of two pivotal developments—the rise of fascism, which culminated in the Holocaust, and the standardization of popular culture as a commodity indispensable to contemporary capitalism—Adorno sought...