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  • Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    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

    $22.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Years of Theory

    Lectures on Modern French Thought

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    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

  • Mimesis, Expression, Construction

    Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Mimesis, Expression, Construction brings Fredric Jameson's famous Duke University seminar on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory into print for the first time.Transcribed and edited from audio recordings taken by Octavian Esanu of the original seminar at Duke University in 2003, Mimesis, Expression, Construction reproduces Jameson and his students' engagement with Aesthetic Theory, one of the most ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Inventions of A Present

    The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    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 Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

    The Postmodernism Essay

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    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

    $17.29 USD

  • The Political Unconscious

    Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    **"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

    $21.89 USD

  • The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I

    A Novel, Volume 1

    by Peter Weiss, Fredric Jameson, Robert Cohen ...
    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade. The first volume, presented ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Raymond Chandler

    The Detections of Totality

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novelRaymond 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 left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler’s work that reconstructs ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Transcendentalist Hermeneutics

    Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible

    by Richard A. Grusin, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    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

    $86.39 USD

  • After Year Zero

    On Postwar German Thought

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    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

  • An American Utopia

    Dual Power and the Universal Army

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    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

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    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