books by Fredric Jameson     books:       Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions)2 reviews Brian Massumi Duke University Press, 2002 integrated brain exercise While many philosophical texts can lay claim to a good cerebral work-out Massumi makes sure you don't forget that the body and sensation are very much part of this process. As he says "There is no thought that is not accompanied by a physical sensation of effort of agitation, (if only a knitting of the brows, a pursing of the lips, or a quickening of the heartbeat). This sensation, which may be ...             Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions Fredric Jameson Verso, 2007 Archaeologies of the Future is the third volume, after Postmodernism and A Singular Modernity , of Jameson?s project on the Poetics of Social Forms. In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future , Jameson?s most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of ...             The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of the Spirit1 review Fredric Jameson Verso, 2010 Short and Sweet This book combines some very interesting insights and claims about the Phenomenology of Spirit with a short, lucid format - lucid if one is used to Jameson's long, sometimes baroque constructions. Despite its accessible length, the book can at times presuppose a surprising amount of familiarity with Hegel's book and the literature on it. Other times, however, Jameson slowly introduces a ...             Valences of the Dialectic2 reviews Fredric Jameson Verso, 2010 ...dialectically, always dialectically. A mentor once called Fredric Jameson "the most dialectical thinker alive." This was astounding praise considering how wide this mentor's circle of associates is and the expansiveness of his knowledge. While my experience with dialectitians was not as broad as his, somehow this description always seemed to corroborate my knowledge. Thus, it always struck me as strange that Jameson would have ...             Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One Fredric Jameson Verso, 2011 A radical rereading of Marx?s central work by the prolific cultural theorist and philosopher. Representing Capital , Fredric Jameson?s first book-length engagement with Marx?s magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx?s thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictions that struggle toward resolution, giving rise to new ...             Brecht and Method3 reviews Fredric Jameson Verso, 1998 Methodical Measures Taken This work by Jameson is perhaps the first serious attempt since Benjamin, to interpret the methodology of one of the more important playwrights and formal experimenters of our century. Jameson's seminars and work at Duke University are captured here in an elegant and intricate map of the Aesthetic which revolutionized theatre and, subsequently film and new media. Jameson understands how ...             Ideologies of Theory Fredric Jameson Verso, 2009 A definitive collection of Jameson's early essays. Ideologies of Theory , updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson?s long career as a critic. They chart a body of work suspended by the twin poles of literary scholarship and politcal history, occupying a space vibrant with the tension between critical exegesis and the Marxist intellectual tradition. Jameson?s ...             The Political Unconscious6 reviews Fredric Jameson Cornell University Press, 1982 Paralogisms and enchainment. Literary productions..., The Political Unconscious is a prodigious crical enterprise that unveils in a stimulating protean verve, the relationship between the political structure and the narrative enterprises of a variety of literary movements and/or individual authors. A model work of Marxist Criticism that sharpens our sensitivity and awareness in relation to the confines and intransigence of political schemas, for ...             Aesthetics and Politics (Radical Thinkers)1 review Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, ... Verso, 2007 an invaluable volume This is a well arranged volume of the essays essential to Marxist criticism from the 1930's to the 1950's. The essayists are all critical contributions are summed-up, and their current relevance traced, in a brilliant conclusion by Frederic Jameson, perhaps the most important Marxist critic writing today. I like this volume because the choice of essays is great and the selections are placed ...             Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions)8 reviews Fredric Jameson Duke University Press, 1991 mind stretching Being an engineer, I prefer not to be carried away with my use of words, but this book just makes, channels the reader talk, think, again talk on it in the ways he/she is not very used to. Nevertheless, this is a good exercise in the broadest sense of the word for everybody. It should be so actively read that I can even recommend it to those who would like to lose weight.             Marxism and Form1 review Fredric Jameson Princeton University Press, 1974 A Must for Marxism If you are looking to begin reading in Marxist theory and cultural critique, you MUST begin with Jameson's magesterial "Marxism and Form." It moves amazingly through the entire Western Marxist tradition, and gives a very nice introduction into each thinker. The book argues throughout that Marxist cultural criticism has hitherto only focused on the content of cultural texts but has ignored the ...             Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media (Post-Contemporary Interventions) D. N.Rodowick Duke University Press, 2001 In Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media D. N. Rodowick applies the concept of ?the figural? to a variety of philosophical and aesthetic issues. Inspired by the aesthetic philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard, the figural defines a semiotic regime where the distinction between linguistic and plastic representation breaks down. This opposition, which has been the philosophical foundation of aesthetics since the eighteenth century, ...             The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration ...3 reviews David Spurr Duke University Press, 1993 Should be Required Reading Among the subjects that should be taught in school are rhetorical analysis and propaganda. Without such education, citizens are sheep to be herded, etc. (choose your favorite metaphor). This book by David Spurr should be included among the important texts in this field, for one reason, because it addresses the vital and virtually invisible aspects of polarization and framing in terms anyone can ...             The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era (Post-Contemporary Interventions)1 review George Yúdice Duke University Press, 2004 compelling book An excellent analysis of the way that matters of culture are deployed by governments in the neoliberal economy, and more. Makes for engrossing reading.             The Historical Novel Georg Lukacs University of Nebraska Press, 1983 Georg Lukács (1885?1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1933. There he faced a new set of problems: Stalinist dogmatism about literature and literary criticism. Maneuvering between the obstacles of censorship, he wrote and published his ...             Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 111 review Duke University Press, 2002 "He who has ears, let him hear..." There are many people who believe that America is now facing the greatest enemy in its history. I am one of the them; the difference is that I don't think that enemy is some vague dark cloud called "terror" enveloping everything outside the borders of the United States. The greatest enemy we faces is ourselves. The events of September 11 should have incited an awakening. Americans should have ...             Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (Poetics of Social Forms)5 reviews Fredric Jameson Verso, 2005 Histories of the Present What is Utopia? And what relevance does it have today? These are the questions Jameson wants to ask and answer in this, his latest and most substantial offering since "A Singular Modernity." "Archaelologies of the Future" picks up Jameson's larger project entitled "The Poetics of the Social Forms" (first hearlded in "The Political Unconscious") where he suggests that today's historical situation ...             Critique of Dialectical Reason (Vol. 1-2)4 reviews Jean-Paul Sartre Verso, 2010 Sartre's Inimitable Greatness - One response to the above reviews Sartre was primarily a moral philosopher - not a metaphysician, epistemologist, or political philosopher. Yet, he was a bit of all these. He is a political thinker by way of his profoundly thought moral philosophy. Thus, I claim: 1) While it may be his last extensive philosophic work, Sartre's CDR is not his "last great philosophic work" - big is not always best. The tragically neglected, "Saint ...             A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present1 review Fredric Jameson Verso, 2002 Problematic Analysis Frederic Jameson has established himself as one of the leading interpreters of 'Post modernism' over the years, but in this work he turns his attention to a history of the modern. By outlining the variegated meanings and understanding's of the modern, from the Cartesian Cogito, to Marx's Capital, Jameson attempts to reach a coherent and comprehensive understanding of the period itself. However, ...             Subject Without Nation: Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Stefan Jonsson Duke University Press, 2001 This innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in western culture. Stefan Jonsson argues that Musil?s Austria was the first postimperial state in modern Europe. Prior to its destruction in 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had ruled over a vast array of nationalities and, in the course of its demise as well as after, Austria was beset by nationalism, racism, and other forms of identity ...              search for books administration, aesthetics, archaeologies, capitalism, contemporary, cultural, dialectic, dialectical, discourse, expediency, historical, ideologies, imperial, interventions, journalism, modernity, parables, phenomenology, philosophy, political, politics, post-contemporary, postmodernism, representing, rhetoric, sensation, september, thinkers, unconscious, variations books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Lollipops home  impressum - about us