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Archive of The Ancients and the Postmoderns

    Verso Books
    31 December 2020
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    Fredric Jameson Bookshelf

    A collection of literary critic, philosopher and political theorist Fredric Jameson's best books.

    Chris Crawford
    16 September 2020
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    Commodification: Intellectual History of a Concept and Process

    Fredric Jameson demonstrates that it is the moment of reification which enables the emergence of commodification as such; or to put it the other way around, the existence of a tendency to commodification is then what motivates reification and encourages its influence in all kinds of areas (the psychic and the cultural, for example) in which it did not previously hold sway or seem applicable.

    Verso Books
    23 August 2020
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    Art and Aesthetics: Verso Student Reading

    Our art and aesthetics reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

    Verso Books
    07 December 2019
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    Art: A Verso Bookshelf

    Our definitive collection on Art and Politics.

    Perry Anderson
    30 May 2017
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    The Timing of Postmodernity

    The capture of the postmodern by Jameson has set the terms of subsequent debate. It is no surprise that the most significant interventions since his entry into the field have likewise been Marxist in origin. The three leading contributions can be read as attempts to supplement or correct, each in its own way, Jameson's original account. Alex Callinicos’s Against Postmodernism (1989) advances a closer analysis of the political background to the postmodern. David Harvey's Condition of Postmodernity (1990) offers a much fuller theory of its economic presuppositions. Terry Eagleton's Illusions of Postmodernism (1996) tackles the impact of its ideological diffusion. All these works pose problems of demarcation. How is the postmodern to be best periodized?

    Verso Books
    10 December 2016
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    Verso's Philosophy and Theory Bookshelf

    Fredric Jameson
    17 November 2016
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    Fredric Jameson: Universal Conscription and the Citizens' Army

    Fredric Jameson
    25 August 2016
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    Real Qualities of the Microcosm: Raymond Chandler in Los Angeles, USA

    The Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler was an unstructured city, and the social types are here nowhere near as pronounced. By the chance of a historical accident, Chandler was able to benefit from the survival of a purely linguistic, typological way of creating his characters after the system of types that had supported it was already disappearing
    Verso Books
    27 July 2016
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    50% off our Theory Shelves!

    Fredric Jameson
    14 July 2016
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    Fredric Jameson: Wal-Mart as Utopia

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