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Fredric Jameson

Born

in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States

April 14, 1934

Died

September 22, 2024

Genre

Philosophy, Politics, Social Sciences

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Fredric Jameson was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) and The Political Unconscious (1981). ...more

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Latest New Left Review Out Now (64, July-August 2010)

Out now: NLR 64, the July-August issue.

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Gavan McCormack: Obama vs. Okinawa

Practical lessons in world hegemony, as Japan's attempt to strike an independent course is cut down by the Obama Administration. For the islanders of Okinawa, another chapter in the centuries old tale of military occupation. Gavan McCormack is the author of Client State .

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Average rating: 3.93 · 17,634 ratings · 785 reviews · 146 distinct works • Similar authors

	Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,289 ratings — published 1991 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Political Unconscious 4.02 avg rating — 1,050 ratings — published 1981 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions 4.03 avg rating — 556 ratings — published 2005 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 by Fredric Jameson, Perry Anderson (Foreword) 3.93 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature 4.21 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 1971 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present 3.79 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Late Marxism: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic 3.99 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1990 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit 3.73 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army by Fredric Jameson, Slavoj Žižek (Editor) 3.64 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Antinomies of Realism 3.98 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.”
― Fredric Jameson

tags: capitalism

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“It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.”
― Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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“I believe that the emergence of postmodernism is closely related to the emergence of this new moment of late, consumer or multinational capitalism. I believe also that its formal features in many ways express the deeper logic of that particular social system. I will only be able, however, to show this for one major theme: namely the disappearance of a sense of history, the way in which our entire contemporary social system has little by little begun to lose its capacity to retain its own past, has begun to live in a perpetual present and in a perpetual change that obliterates traditions of the kind which all earlier social formations have had in one way or another to preserve. Think only of the media exhaustion of news: of how Nixon and, even more so, Kennedy are figures from a now distant past. One is tempted to say that the very function of the news media is to relegate such recent historical experiences as rapidly as possible into the past.”
― Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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