Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture stand alongside essays on the status of history, theory, Marxism, and the subject in an age propelled by finance capital and endless spectacle. Surveying the debates that blazed up around his earlier essays, Jameson responds to critics and maps out the theoretical positions of postmodernism’s prominent friends and foes.

“Exploding like so many magnesium flares in the night sky, Fredric Jameson’s writings have lit up the shrouded landscape of the postmodern … The Cultural Turn offers the most compact and complete résumé on the subject.” — Perry Anderson

  • “Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today … It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him.” – Colin MacCabe

    Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, and The Ideologies of Theory.

    		• Publication
    May 2009

    224 pages

    Series
    Radical Thinkers

    Paper
    ISBN13: 978 1 84467 349 0
    US$12.95 / £6.99 / CAN$16

    Also available from Verso:

    A Singular Modernity

    Brecht and Method

    Archaeologies of the Future

    Late Marxism: Adorno,or the Persistence of the Dialectic

    Postmodernism: or; The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism