Fredric Jameson | April 14, 1934 - September 22, 2024

Book strip #1

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  The Years of Theory

  by Fredric Jameson

  Edited by Carson Welch

  Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lect...
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  Inventions of a Present

  by Fredric Jameson

  A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best...
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  Late Marxism

  by Fredric Jameson

  In the name of an assault on “totalization” and “identity,” a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism’s dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernis...
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  Archaeologies of the Future

  by Fredric Jameson

  In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the...
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  Fables of Aggression

  by Fredric Jameson

  The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists—Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats—who were his sometime friends and collaborators. Lewis’s originality, how...
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  Ideologies of Theory

  by Fredric Jameson

  Ideologies of Theory, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson’s long career as a critic. They chart a body of work ...
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  The Cultural Turn

  by Fredric Jameson

  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, nost...
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  Valences of the Dialectic

  by Fredric Jameson

  After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic,...
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  Brecht and Method

  by Fredric Jameson

  The legacy of Bertolt Brecht is much contested, whether by those who wish to forget or to vilify his politics, but his stature as the outstanding political playwright and poet of the twentieth cent...
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  A Singular Modernity

  by Fredric Jameson

  The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this intervention, Fredric Jameson—perhaps the m...
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  Representing 'Capital'

  by Fredric Jameson

  Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musica...
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  The Antinomies of Realism

  by Fredric Jameson

  The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it imp...
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  The Modernist Papers

  by Fredric Jameson

  The Modernist Papers is a tour de force of analysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centurie...
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  An American Utopia

  by Fredric Jameson

  Contributions by Jodi Dean, Saroj Giri, Agon Hamza, Kojin Karatani, Kim Stanley Robinson, Frank Ruda and Kathi Weeks

  Edited by Slavoj Žižek

  Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal co...
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  The Hegel Variations

  by Fredric Jameson

  In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel’s foundational text Phenomenology of Spirit.In contrast to those who see the Phenomenolo...
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  Allegory and Ideology

  by Fredric Jameson

  Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contra...
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  The Benjamin Files

  by Fredric Jameson

  The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-p...
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  Raymond Chandler

  by Fredric Jameson

  Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he ...
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  Postmodernism

  by Fredric Jameson

  In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a de...
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  Ghostly Demarcations

  Contributions by Aijaz Ahmad, Jacques Derrida, Terry Eagleton, Werner Hamacher, Fredric Jameson, Tom Lewis, Pierre Macherey, Rastko Mo?nik, Warren Montag and Antonio Negri

  Edited by Michael Sprinker

  With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx’s texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provide...
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  Postmodernism and Its Discontents

  Contributions by Mike Davis, William Galperin, David E. James, Fredric Jameson, E. Ann Kaplan, Warren Montag, Fred Pfeil, Dana Polan, Robert Stam and Linda Williams

  Edited by E. Ann Kaplan

  On the current battlefield of cultural criticism and production, no term has been more vigorously contested than 'postmodernism'. Defying clear definition, yet persisting as an indispensable catego...