Fredric Jameson

Live Theory
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9108-4
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

Reihe: Live Theory

Major series of guidebooks for students: offers a clear introduction to the work of a key contemporary cultural theorist and includes a new interview with the subject
- Fredric Jameson is widely regarded as one of America's most important cultural theorists; he is widely taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level on Cultural Theory and Literature courses, particularly in modules on Postmodernism
- Affordable student price
- Strongly branded and heavily promoted series.

Widely regarded as one of America's most important cultural theorists, Fredric Jameson has been at the forefront of the field of literary and cultural studies since the early 1970s. Author of The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act and Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Jameson is without doubt one of the leading intellectuals of our time. Fredric Jameson: Live Theory offers an invaluable and highly accessible introduction to the work of this important thinker. Ian Buchanan explores and illuminates how Jameson forms his concepts and how they operate, providing a fascinating account of Jameson's important and ongoing contributions to Critical Theory. The book provides a clear sense of his overall project and the marvellous productivity of his thinking. Motivated by a desire to inaugurate social change by illuminating the obstacles standing in its way, the aim of Jameson's work is to dishabituate us from the comfortable feeling that modern life is enhanced by the global grip of capitalism. The book concludes with a new interview with Jameson himself, in which he discusses the key themes and issues in his work and future directions for the Jamesonian project. Thematically organised, clear and accessible, Fredric Jameson: Live Theory is a key resource for anyone studying this pioneering thinker.

Zielgruppe

General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buchanan, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: Towards a Dialectical Criticism Introduction
1. Metacommentary
2. Dialectical Criticism
3. The Political Unconscious
PART II: Poetics of Social Forms Introduction
4. Brave New World Order?
5. Worlds Apart
6. One World After All Interview with Fredric Jameson

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Buchanan is Professor and Foundation Chair of Communication and Cultural Studies at Charles Darwin University, Australia. He is editor of Fredric Jameson's Interviews 1982-2002 (Duke, 2004) and co-editor of On Jameson (SUNY, 2004).