Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson
Duke University Press, 1992 eISBN: 978-0-8223-7841-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8223-0929-1 | Paper: 978-0-8223-1090-7 Library of Congress Classification PN98.P67J3 1991 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.91
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Fredric Jameson is Professor and Chair of the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the coeditor, with Masao Miyoshi, of The Cultures of Globalization, also published by Duke University Press.
REVIEWS
"Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as America's most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions; a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism); and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study."—Jonathan Arac
“A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought.”
-- Ned Lukacher Choice
“An encyclopedic grasp of modern culture.”
-- Stuart Hall Marxism Today
“For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism . . . Jameson’s book is a fundamental, nonpareil text.”
-- Gilbert Adair Sunday Times (London)
“Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction. . . . Postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster.”
-- Terry Eagleton Irish Times
“No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism’s history so well as Fredric Jameson.”
-- Michael Bérubé Voice Literary Supplement
“The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video, and economics, is truly staggering. . . . Brilliant . . .”
-- Siauddin Sardar The Independent
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction
1. Culture: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
2. Ideology: Theories of The Postmodern
3. Video: Surrealism Without The Unconscious
4. Architecture: Spatial Equivalents in the World System
5. Sentences: Reading and the Division of Labor
6. Space: Utopianism After the End of Utopia
7. Theory: Immanence and Nominalism In Postmodern Theoretical Discourse
8. Economics: Postmodernism and the Market
9. Film: Nostalgia for the Present
10. Conclusion: Secondary Elaborations
Notes
Index
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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson
Duke University Press, 1992 eISBN: 978-0-8223-7841-9 Cloth: 978-0-8223-0929-1 Paper: 978-0-8223-1090-7
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Fredric Jameson is Professor and Chair of the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the coeditor, with Masao Miyoshi, of The Cultures of Globalization, also published by Duke University Press.
REVIEWS
"Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as America's most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions; a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism); and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study."—Jonathan Arac
“A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought.”
-- Ned Lukacher Choice
“An encyclopedic grasp of modern culture.”
-- Stuart Hall Marxism Today
“For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism . . . Jameson’s book is a fundamental, nonpareil text.”
-- Gilbert Adair Sunday Times (London)
“Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction. . . . Postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster.”
-- Terry Eagleton Irish Times
“No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism’s history so well as Fredric Jameson.”
-- Michael Bérubé Voice Literary Supplement
“The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video, and economics, is truly staggering. . . . Brilliant . . .”
-- Siauddin Sardar The Independent
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction
1. Culture: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
2. Ideology: Theories of The Postmodern
3. Video: Surrealism Without The Unconscious
4. Architecture: Spatial Equivalents in the World System
5. Sentences: Reading and the Division of Labor
6. Space: Utopianism After the End of Utopia
7. Theory: Immanence and Nominalism In Postmodern Theoretical Discourse
8. Economics: Postmodernism and the Market
9. Film: Nostalgia for the Present
10. Conclusion: Secondary Elaborations
Notes
Index
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