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The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory » Read Now
by Clint Burnham. 274 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Editors: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson THE JAMESONIAN UNCONSCIOUS...objectivation of theory via the work of Fredric Jameson. And Im trying to do this...markers for a...
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Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism » Read Now
by Fredric Jameson. 438 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Interventions Series Editors: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson POSTMODERNISM, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism FREDRIC JAMESON DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS DURHAM Seventh...
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The Cultures of Globalization ("Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue" by Fredric Jameson begins on p. 54) » Read Now
by Fredric Jameson, Masao Miyoshi. 396 pgs.

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A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. The Cultures of Globalization presents an international panel of intellectuals who consider the...
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A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. The Cultures of Globalization presents an international panel of intellectuals who consider the process of globalization as it concerns the transformation of the economic into the cultural and vice versa; the rise of consumer culture around the world; the production and cancellation of forms of subjectivity; and the challenges it presents to national identity, local culture, and traditional forms of everyday life.
Discussing overlapping themes of transnational consequence, the contributors to this volume describe how the global character of technology, communication networks, consumer culture, intellectual discourse, the arts, and mass entertainment have all been affected by recent worldwide trends. Appropriate to such diversity of material, the authors approach their topics from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including those of linguistics, sociology, economics, anthropology, and the law. Essays examine such topics as free trade, capitalism, the North and South, Eurocentrism, language migration, art and cinema, social fragmentation, sovereignty and nationhood, higher education, environmental justice, wealth and poverty, transnational corporations, and global culture.
Bridging the spheres of economic, political, and cultural inquiry, The Cultures of Globalization brings crucial insight into many of the most significant changes occurring in today's world. This volume will inform readers interested in current and future global challenges and those intellectuals involved incultural, postcolonial, and neocolonial studies in various regions of the world from Latin America to Africa, Asia/Pacific, and the Middle East.
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Mapping Ideology (Chap. 13 "Postmodernism and the Market" by Fredric Jameson) » Read Now
by Slavoj Zizek. 346 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Postmodernism and the Market Fredric Jameson 278 14 How Did...liberal capitalism ; today, as Fredric Jameson perspicaciously remarked, nobody...Chapter 14 . 22. See...
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Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society (Chap. 9 "Late Jameson") » Read Now
by Geoffrey Galt Harpham. 288 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

What place do ethical concerns have in intellectual life today? Why do ethical issues so often intrude in discussions of literature, criticism, and culture? And why are ethical issues so often unresolved? In short, why does ethics seem to be both urgent and problematic? In this book noted critic...
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What place do ethical concerns have in intellectual life today? Why do ethical issues so often intrude in discussions of literature, criticism, and culture? And why are ethical issues so often unresolved? In short, why does ethics seem to be both urgent and problematic? In this book noted critic Geoffrey Galt Harpham seeks to transform the contemporary understanding of ethics by arguing that it not only "shadows" other discourses but is itself "shadowed".
For Harpham, ethics is not a source of rules or norms, but a way of structuring questions. Ethics, he argues, involves the stresses and conflicts that arise in confrontation with an "other" -- a human other, but also an otherness within ethics itself. A conflicted discourse, ethics marks the point where literature becomes conceptually rigorous and theory becomes humanized. In addition to deeply original meditations on such subjects as rationality, aesthetics, and "enlightenment", Shadows of Ethics contains probing accounts of the work of such contemporary thinkers as Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, Jacques Derrida, Noam Chomsky, Geoffrey Hartman, Robert Nozick, and Martha Nussbaum. In a final essay called "Imagining the Center", Harpham attacks the current academic obsession with marginality and challenges critics to occupy -- imaginatively and theoretically -- a position of political and intellectual power.
Shadows of Ethics will interest literary critics, scholars in philosophy and postmodernism, and theorists interested in the relationship between ethics and their discipline.
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Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture ("'A Contradiction of Which He Himself is the Resolution': Fredric Jameson on Max Weber" begins on p. 118) » Read Now
by Bruce Robbins. 274 pgs.

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...error both about the past and about the present. As Fredric Jameson points out, when "the twin affranchisement from the...with any of the ultimate possibilities." 40 In...
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The Parameters of Postmodernism ("Eagleton, Jameson, and Dehistoricized Culture" begins on p. 29) » Read Now
by Nicholas Zurbrugg. 183 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...I should also like to thank Fredric Jameson for his pages constant irritation...theory stories have assumed. Fredric Jameson, reassessing his previous reservations...appear...
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Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values (Chap. 4 "Culture: Western Traditions and Intellectual Treason") » Read Now
by John Michael. 220 pgs.

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...construction of Gramscis notion of the organic intellectual. The desire to be organic intellectuals, as Stuart Hall, Fredric Jameson, and others have suggested, most often...
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Lukacs after Communism: Interviews with Contemporary Intellectuals ("Interview with Fredric Jameson" begins on p. 75) » Read Now
by Eva L. Corredor. 212 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Editors: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson LUKACS AFTER COMMUNISM INTERVIEWS...Steiner 61 Fredric Jameson 75 Cornel West...days after serious surgery. Fredric Jameson, who...
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Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture' ("Materialism, Production, and Critique" begins on p. 124) » Read Now
by Adam Katz. 237 pgs.

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Adam Katz is an adjunct English instructor at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York.
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Writing Histories of Rhetoric ("Marxist and Poststructuralist Historiographies" begins on p. 61) » Read Now
by Victor. J. Vitanza. 300 pgs.

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...in the Teaching of English and the call to action Fredric Jameson writes with in The Political Unconscious , a book...regarded or disregarded as the factual nonthoroughness...
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Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries ("Allegory, Aesthetics of Negativity, and Antinomies of Revolution: The Legacy of Lu Xun Revisited" begins on p. 44) » Read Now
by Kang Liu. 230 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Although Chinese Marxism -- primarily represented by Maoism -- is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and...
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Although Chinese Marxism -- primarily represented by Maoism -- is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics and culture in their theories and practices. In doing so, he constructs a wholly new understanding of Chinese Marxism.
Far from being secondary considerations in Chinese Marxism, aesthetics and culture are in fact principal concerns. In this respect, such Marxists are similar to their Western counterparts, although Europeans have had little understanding of the Chinese experience. Liu traces the genealogy of aesthetic discourse in both modern China and the West since the era of classical German thought, showing where conceptual modifications and divergences have occurred in the two traditions. He examines the work of Mao Zedong, Lu Xun, Li Zehou, Qu Qiubai, and others in China, and from the West he discusses Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, and Marxist theorists including Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, and Marcuse. While stressing the diversity of Marxist positions within China as well as in the West, Liu explains how ideas of culture and aesthetics have offered a constructive vision for a postrevolutionary society and have affected a wide field of issues involving the problems of modernity.
Forcefully argued and theoretically sophisticated, this book will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Marxism, cultural studies, aesthetics, and modern Chinese culture, politics, andideology.
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The Origins of Postmodernity (Chap. 3 "Capture") » Read Now
by Perry Anderson. 154 pgs.

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A scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York City & a frightening study of the way misguided & malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous & unforeseen urban collapse.
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The Idea of the Postmodern: A History (Chap. 8 "Fredric Jameson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas") » Read Now
by Hans Bertens. 284 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Everything you ever wanted to know about postmodernism but were too confused to ask is contained in this book. Hans Bertens' Postmodernism is the first introductory overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witty and accessible guide for the bemused student. In clear, straightforward and...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about postmodernism but were too confused to ask is contained in this book. Hans Bertens' Postmodernism is the first introductory overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witty and accessible guide for the bemused student. In clear, straightforward and elegant prose, Bertens sets out the interdisciplinary aspects, the critical debates and the key theorists of postmodernism. He also explains the relationship between postmodernism and poststructuralism, and that between modernism and postmodernism. An enjoyable and indispensable text for today's student.
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Postmodernism and Social Inquiry ("Fredric Jameson's Marxist Literary Theory" begins on p. 86) » Read Now
by David R. Dickens, Andrea Fontana. 260 pgs.

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This introduction to postmodernism offers a comprehensive examination of postmodern theory and its application to the study of society. It surveys the work of theorists and explores the potential and limits of postmodern analysis across key areas of development, including deconstruction, Semiotics...
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This introduction to postmodernism offers a comprehensive examination of postmodern theory and its application to the study of society. It surveys the work of theorists and explores the potential and limits of postmodern analysis across key areas of development, including deconstruction, Semiotics, The New Ethnography And Feminist Theory. This Guide Should Be suitable as an undergraduate text for social and cultural theory courses and should appeal to students of social research methods.
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Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader ("Magical Narratives: On the Dialectical Use of Genre Criticism (1981)" by Fredric Jameson begins on p. 180) » Read Now
by David Sandner. 360 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Unprecedented in range and scope, this volume serves as a record of and reference for the development of fantasy literature. Working to be inclusive, rather than exclusive, opening a dialogue wherever possible, Sandner presents the full range of debates concerning the fantastic and its relationship...
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Unprecedented in range and scope, this volume serves as a record of and reference for the development of fantasy literature. Working to be inclusive, rather than exclusive, opening a dialogue wherever possible, Sandner presents the full range of debates concerning the fantastic and its relationship to the sublime, the Gothic, children's literature, romance and comedy, and the purposes of imaginative literature. Introductions to each essay, presented in full or excerpted for the most relevant commentary, situate the reader in the history of fantasy literature and the criticism it has inspired.
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