JAMESON FREDRIC

ΤΟ ΜΕΤΑΜΟΝΤΕΡΝΟ 'Η Η ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΙΚΗ ΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΤΟΥ ΥΣΤΕΡΟΥ ΚΑΠΙΤΑΛΙΣΜΟΥ
[...] Όσο για τον όρο μεταμοντέρνο καθ' εαυτό, δεν επιχείρησα να συστηματοποιήσω τη χρήση του ή να επιβάλλω κανενός είδους συνοπτικό και συνεκτικό τρόπο κατανόησής του: ο όρος δεν είναι απλώς αμφιλεγόμενος, είναι και εσωτερικά τεταμένος και αντιφατικός. Η άποψη που θα υποστηρίξω είναι ότι, είτε το θέλουμε είτε όχι, δεν μπορούμε να μη τον χρησιμοποιήσουμε. Αλλά η επιχειρηματολογία μου συντείνει επίσης στο γεγονός ότι, κάθε φορά που χρησιμοποιούμε τον όρο, είμαστε υποχρεωμένοι να επανερχόμαστε σε αυτές τις εσωτερικές αντιφάσεις και να αντιμε...
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(P/B) LATE MARXISM
A lively and lucid introduction to the work of Theodor Adorno. In the name of an assault on «totalization» and «identity,» a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism's dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernism and «post-politics.» A case in point is recent interpretation of one of the greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Theodor Adorno. In this powerful book, Fredric Jameson proposes a radically different reading of Adorno's work, especially of his major works on philosophy and aesth...
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(H/B) THE ANCIENTS AND THE POSTMODERNS
Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to "The Wire" High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson's major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against late-modernist ones (in film) as well as a variety of postmodern experiments (from SF to The Wire, from "Eurotrash" in opera to Altman and East German literature): all of which attempt, in their different ways, to invent new forms to grasp a specif...
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(H/B) RAYMOND CHANDLER
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work that reconstructs both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a meg...
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(P/B) THE ANTINOMIES OF REALISM
Winner of the 2014 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Perez Galdos, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since struggle to reconcile the social conditions of their own creation with the history of ...
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(P/B) ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE
The relationship between utopia and science fiction, in the age of globalization. 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 Late Capitalism, investigates the development of this form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. The relationship between...
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(H/B) THE ANTINOMIES OF REALISM
The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Perez Galdos, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since struggle to reconcile the social conditions of their own creation with the history of this mode of writing: the so-called modernist novel is one attem...
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(H/B) REPRESENTING CAPITAL
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 antinomies and a new forward movement. These immense segments overlap each other to combine and develop on new l...
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(H/B) ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE