Fredric Jameson: The Project Of Dialectical Criticism (marxism And Culture)

Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly old-fashioned philosophical discourses, most notably dialectical criticism and utopian thought. In Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism, Robert Tally surveys Jameson's entire oeuvre, from his early studies of Sartre and formal criticism through his engagements with postmodernism and globalisation to his recent readings of Hegel, Marx and the valences of the dialectic. The book is both a comprehensive critical guide to Jameson’s theoretical project and itself a convincing argument for the power of dialectical criticism to understand the world today. Intro -- Half-title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Selected Works by Fredric Jameson -- Introduction: Jameson as Educator -- 1." ... the dialectic requires you to say everything simultaneously ..."--Timely Meditations -- Making Things Difficult -- Meanwhile -- 2. The Task of the Translator -- Sartre -- Marxism and Form -- The Prison-House of Language -- 3. The Untranscendable Horizon -- Fables of Aggression -- The Political Unconscious -- The Ideologies of Theory: Situations of Theory and The Syntax of History -- 4. The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism -- Late Marxism -- Signatures of the Visible -- Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism -- 5. Cognitive Mapping and Globalization -- The Geopolitical Aesthetic -- The Seeds of Time -- The Cultural Turn -- 6. The Thing about Modernity -- Brecht and Method -- A Singular Modernity -- The Modernist Papers -- 7. Other Spaces Are Possible -- Archaeologies of the Future -- The Ideologies of Theory Redux -- Valences of the Dialectic -- Conclusion: Reading Jameson -- The Hegel Variations -- Representing Capital -- Notes -- Index Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly old-fashioned philosophical discourses, most notably dialectical criticism and utopian thought. In Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism, Robert Tally surveys Jameson's entire oeuvre, from his early studies of Sartre and formal criticism through his engagements with postmodernism and globalisation to his recent readings of Hegel, Marx and the valences of the dialectic. The book is both a comprehensive critical guide to Jameson's theoretical project and itself a convincing argument for the power of dialectical criticism to understand the world today.--Amazon.com