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  • The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

    The Postmodernism Essay

    Fredric Jameson’s essay “The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”—originally published in 1984 and later included in his canonical 1991 book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism—made a radical intervention that continues to be as relevant as ever. In the essay, Jameson takes up contemporary art and architecture to theorize postmodernism as an expression of the disorientating ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
    Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Years of Theory

    Lectures on Modern French Thought

    Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America’s leading Marxist critic'Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this effervescent period of thought in the context of its most significant political ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Inventions of A Present

    The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization

    The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and moreA 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 and most intense cases, to propose a wholly new idea of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Political Unconscious

    Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

    **"Monumental...Its learning and range of references are exceeded only be the imperial embrace of its complex argument, whose elaboration never imposes a sacrifice of clarity...Indispensable for all university and college libraries."—**ChoiceFredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious**, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context.** He asserts ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • After Year Zero

    On Postwar German Thought

    Jameson's legendary lectures on German thought, brought together in one volume for the first time.In this series of accessible lectures, Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy and critical theory as it developed in the wake of World War Two. Focusing on key thinkers — Horkheimer, Adorno, Heidegger, Habermas, Marcuse, Beuys, Enzensberger, Kluge, and Sloterdijk — Jameson weaves close readings of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Transcendentalist Hermeneutics

    Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible

    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emerson’s resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self that is independent and fundamentally opposed to the “accoutrements of society and civilization” and expresses a Transcendentalist antipathy ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • An American Utopia

    Dual Power and the Universal Army

    Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writersFredric 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 conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge to any communist society, and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Allegory and Ideology

    Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical formWorks 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 contradictions (which is not the same as solving them!) The inevitable and welcome conflict of interpretations - a discursive, ideological struggle - therefore ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

    Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema

    Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts—such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche—and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Prison-House of Language

    A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism

    Series series Princeton Essays in Literature
    A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and philosophical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism. Combining a survey of these ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Marxism and Form

    20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature

    An influential introduction to Marxist cultural criticism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn Marxism and Form, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, offers a pioneering look at major European Marxist and Frankfurt School thinkers—Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Bloch, Lukács, and Sartre. Through penetrating readings, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD