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

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."

Fredric Jameson is one of the influential literary and cultural critics writing. His ideas about the intersections of politics and culture have reshaped the critical landscape across the humanities and social sciences. This book discusses his intellectual and political preoccupations, his commitment to Marxism and the culture it has engendered.

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.

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 Lukacs, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Through penetrating readings of each theorist, Jameson developed a critical mode of engagement that has had tremendous in.uence. He provided a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making--in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form. Jameson's presentation of the critical thought of this Hegelian Marxism provided a stark alternative to the Anglo-American tradition of empiricism and humanism. It would later provide a compelling alternative to poststructuralism and deconstruction as they became dominant methodologies in aesthetic criticism. One year after Marxism and Form, Princeton published Jameson's The Prison-House of Language (1972), which provided a thorough historical and philosophical description of formalism and structuralism. Both books remain central to Jameson's main intellectual legacy: describing and extending a tradition of Western Marxism in cultural theory and literary interpretation.

Fredric Jameson's survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship between the synchronic methods of Saussurean linguistics and the realities of time and history.