Fredric Jameson Bücher

Wie es zur Wiederkehr traditioneller Philosophie hat kommen können, beschreibt Jameson in diesem Band scharfsinnig. Dabei nimmt er das Wesen der Modernität selbst in den Blick, das in den Sozialwissenschaften bis heute nur unzureichend verstanden worden ist.

This work offers an in-depth examination of dialectical philosophy, highlighting its significance in cultural criticism. The author, a leading figure in the field, explores the intricate relationships between ideas and societal structures, providing insights into how dialectics shapes our understanding of culture. Through rigorous analysis, the book delves into historical and contemporary applications of dialectical thought, making it an essential read for those interested in philosophy and cultural studies.

"A comprehensive new reading of Walter Benjamin's major works, as well as a great number of his less well-known publications, from one of America's foremost cultural and literary critics"-- Provided by publisher

Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity . The Modernist Papers is a tour de froce of anlysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jameson discusses modernist poetics, including intensive discussions of the work of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Wallace Stevens, Joyce, Proust, and Thomas Mann. He explores the peculiarties of the American literary field, taking in William Carlos Williams and the American epic, and examines the language theories of Gertrude Stein. Refusing to see modernism as simply a Western phenomenon he also pays close attention to its Japanese expression; while the complexities of a late modernist representation of twentieth-century politics are articulated in a concluding section on Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Challenging our previous understanding of the literature of this pperiod, this monumental work will come to be regarded as the classic study of modernism.

"This major new work by Fredric Jameson is not a book about 'method,' but it does propose a dialectic capable of holding together in one breath the heterogeneities that reflect our biological individualities, our submersion in collective history and class struggle, and our alienation to a disembodied new world of information and abstraction. Eschewing the arid secularities of philosophy, Walter Benjamin once recommended the alternative of the rich figurality of an older theology; in that spirit we here return to the antiquated Ptolemaic systems of ancient allegory and its multiple levels (a proposal first sketched out in The Political Unconscious); it is tested against the epic complexities of the overtly allegorical works of Dante, Spenser and the Goethe of Faust II, as well as symphonic form in music, and the structure of the novel, postmodern as well as Third World: about which a notorious essay on National Allegory is here reprinted with a theoretical commentary; and an allegorical history of emotion is meanwhile rehearsed from its contemporary, geopolitical context"-- Provided by publisher

This classic collection showcases Fredric Jameson's influential essays that delve into the intersections of culture, politics, and ideology. Renowned for his critical analysis of postmodernism, Jameson explores how cultural artifacts reflect and shape societal structures. His thought-provoking insights challenge readers to reconsider the relationship between art and the socio-economic conditions of their time, making this work a vital contribution to contemporary cultural theory.