Bøker av Fredric Jameson

Jameson's study of the cultural, political and social implications of postmodernism.

Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America’s leading Marxist critic'

The giant of literary theory analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Márquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more

Mimesis, Expression, Construction brings Fredric Jameson's famous Duke University seminar on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory into print for the first time.Transcribed and edited from audio recordings taken by Octavian Esanu of the original seminar at Duke University in 2003, Mimesis, Expression, Construction reproduces Jameson and his students' engagement with Aesthetic Theory, one of the most influential theories of modernist aesthetics.The first and only published record of Jameson's teaching and pedagogic style, the seminar delves into modern and modernist aesthetics through the perspectives of Kant, Hegel, Freud, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche; Benjamin and other members of the Frankfurt School; the literary works of Thomas Mann and Samuel Beckett; the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg; the films of Chaplin, Vertov and Eisenstein; the aesthetic implications of psychoanalysis and biblical exegesis; classical music; and more.Presented in the format of a play, with stage setting, student interruptions and exchanges, interjections, auditory noises, and ambient sounds, and complemented with scans of students' notes, Mimesis, Expression, Construction is a groundbreaking addition to the work of one of the greatest modern cultural critics.

"La cultura es el halo que un grupo percibe cuando entra en contacto y observa a otro". No se puede entender la cultura sin el otro, igual que no es posible entenderse a uno mismo sin lo ajeno. Lo complicado es ser capaz de visibilizar lo ajeno, lo marginado, en un mundo que cambia más rápido de lo que se narra; que genera desigualdades al vertiginoso ritmo del progreso.Fredric Jameson, una de las mejores plumas de nuestro tiempo, logra hacer confluir teoría política y crítica literaria. Conecta lo académico con lo cotidiano, enmarcando todo proceso simbólico en estructuras de poder que deben ser desnaturalizadas.Ningún estudioso de la literatura iguala la versatilidad, la erudición enciclopédica, el brío imaginativo o la prodigiosa energía intelectual de Jameson, emergiendo como alguien venido de un pasado cultural de mayor grandeza, un refugiado de la era de Shklovsky y Auerbach, Jakobson y Barthes, que sin embargo sigue siendo absolutamente contemporáneo.Terry Eagleton(Crítico literario y de la cultura británico)

L'antiestetica è la base fondante, motivo per cui questo libro non solo diventa la "bibbia del postmoderno" sul quale si formano centinaia di ricercatori negli atenei americani, ma è un tassello importante per capire gli sviluppi successivi del suo pensiero e dell'attività critica del gruppo di "October". Con "L'antiestetica" Hal Foster chiama a raccolta critici autorevoli - Jürgen Habermas, Jean Baudrillard, Kenneth Frampton, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Craig Owens, Gregory L. Ulmer, Fredric Jameson, e Edward W. Said - con lo scopo di investigare sull'intera gamma della produzione culturale postmoderna.

Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work

A comprehensive analysis of the philosophy of the dialectic by the doyen of cultural criticism.

A collection of theoretical essays which were composed under a particular set of constraints - the need to explain the Marxist intellectual tradition within the bounds of literary criticism - thereby enlarging the conception of the literary text.

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 de froce of anlysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jameson discusses modernist poetics, including intensive discussions of the work of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarm, Wallace Stevens, Joyce, Proust, and Thomas Mann. He explores the peculiarties of the American literary field, taking in William Carlos Williams and the American epic, and examines the language theories of Gertrude Stein. Refusing to see modernism as simply a Western phenomenon he also pays close attention to its Japanese expression; while the complexities of a late modernist representation of twentieth-century politics are articulated in a concluding section on Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.Challenging our previous understanding of the literature of this pperiod, this monumental work will come to be regarded as the classic study of modernism.

In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty-"a telling of the future," as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck."

The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this intervention, Fredric Jamesonperhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernityexcavates and explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.The extraordinary revival of discussions of modernity, as well as of new theories of artistic modernism, demands attention in its own right. It seems clear that the (provisional) disappearance of alternatives to capitalism plays its part in the universal attempt to revive ';modernity' as a social ideal. Yet the paradoxes of the concept illustrate its legitimate history and suggest some rules for avoiding its misuse as well.In this major interpretation of the problematic, Jameson concludes that both concepts are tainted, but nonetheless yield clues as to the nature of the phenomena they purported to theorize. His judicious and vigilant probing of both termswhich can probably not be banished at this late datehelps us clarify our present political and artistic situations.

Provides an introduction to one of the great Marxist thinkers of the 20th century.

This ground-breaking and influential study explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. It takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.