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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.

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 or auxiliary to other methods current today.Jameson supports his thesis by looking closely at the nature of interpretation. Our understanding...

After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through conflicts arising from its inherent contradictions, transformed two centuries of Western philosophy. To Hegel, who dominated nineteenth-century thought, it was a metaphysical system. In the works of Ma...

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A lively and lucid introduction to one of the great Marxist thinkers of the 20th century by the master cultural critic.

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Los conceptos de modernidad y modernismo han dado lugar a los debates más enérgicos dentro de la filosofía contemporánea y la teoría cultural. En esta nueva intervención, Fredric Jameson examina estas nociones de manera iluminadora, otorgándoles la atención y el análisis político que reclaman.La afirmación de estar en un momento de ¿modernidad¿ con respecto al tiempo anterior implica que la conciencia individual y colectiva percibe una discont...

Every now and then a book appears which is literally ahead of its time ... The Political Unconscious is such a book ... it sets new standards of what a classic work is.' - Slavoj ZizekIn this ground-breaking and influential study, Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. A landmark publication, The Political Unconscious takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century. Fi...

First published in 1961, Sartre: The Origins of a Style is a striking attempt "not merely to analyze Sartre's work formally, from an aesthetic perspective but above all to replace Sartre in literary history itself." As a study of Sartre's writings this work articulates the antagonism between the modernist tradition and Sartrean narrative or stylistic procedures. From the broader methodological perspective, Jameson turns around "the relationshi...

The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associatedwith the work of the great modernists-Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats-who were his sometime friends and collaborators.Lewis's originality, however, is born of the fact that, unlike thesewriters, he was in essence a political novelist. Fredric Jamesonproposes a framework in which Lewis's explosive languagepractice can be grasped as a symbolic and political act.

A collection of interviews with Fredric Jameson over a 20 year period.

A collection of interviews with Fredric Jameson over a 20 year period.

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Jameson's classic study of German playwright Bertolt Brecht

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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 Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking wor...

One of the great excitement of this book is the way that the perspective it obtains enables an entirely fresh look at the whole question of film, and politics. What Jameson suggests is that we must now analyze film comparatively-that we can only understand a films politics when we place it both in its local political context and its global context as film-for any film will inevitably reflect on what one might call its place in the global distr...