(P/B) VALENCES OF THE DIALECTIC

Παρουσίαση

After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through conflicts arising from its inherent contradictions, transformed two centuries of Western philosophy. To Hegel, who dominated nineteenth-century thought, it was a metaphysical system. In the works of Marx, the dialectic became a tool for materialist historical analysis.
Jameson brings a theoretical scrutiny to bear on the questions that have arisen in the history of this philosophical tradition, contextualizing the debate in terms of commodification and globalization, and with reference to thinkers such as Rousseau, Lukacs, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, and Althusser. Through rigorous, erudite examination, "Valences of the Dialectic" charts a movement toward the innovation of a "spatial" dialectic. Jameson presents a new synthesis of thought that revitalizes dialectical thinking for the twenty-first century. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

I. THE THREE NAMES OF THE DIALECTIC
1. The Three Names of The Dialectic
II. HEGEL WITHOUT AUFHEBUNG
2. Hegel and Relocation
3. Hegel's Contemporary Critics
III. COMMENTARIES
4. Marx's Purloined Letter
5. Deleuze and Dualism
6. History and Class Consciousness as an Unfinished Project
7. Sartre's Critique, Volume I: An Introduction
8. Sartre's Critique, Volume 2: An Introduction
IV. ENTRIES
9. Commodification
10. Cultural Revolution
11. Persistencies of the Dialectic: Three Sites
12. Lenin as Political Thinker
13. Rousseau and Contradiction
14. Ideological Analysis: A Handbook
V. POLITICS
15. Actually Existing Marxism
16. Utopia as Replication
17. Globalization as a Philosophical Issue
18. Globalization and Political Strategy
VI. THE VALENCES OF HISTORY
19. The Valences of History
Part I. Making Time Appear
Temporality and Figuration; Ricoeur's Project; Aristotle vs. Semiotics; The Phenomenology of Narrative; Augustine vs. Aristotle; Ricoeur's Three Mimeses; Eudaimonics; Closure of the Act; Modernism and the Categories of Time; The Time of the Historians
Part II. Making History Appear
Taking Sides; Peripeteia; Anagnorisis; Pathos
Acknowledgments
Index