Renowned literary and cultural theorist with his writings on the modernist tradition
Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.
Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously
energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles
to science fiction.
*Terry Eagleton*
Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English
today . It can truly be said that nothing cultural is alien to
him.
*Colin MacCabe*
Jameson's chef d'oeuvre, Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of
Late Capitalism, provides one of the more persuasive cognitive maps
we have of the evolution of culture in the West in the period from
the mid-twentieth century to the present day. His achievement is
all the more notable in that he is by conviction a Marxist, hostile
to Anglo-American empiricism, the anti-theoretical theory that
reigns supreme today.
*Australian Book Review*
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