Fredric Jameson

Fredric R. Jameson ( born 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American political Marxist literary critic and theorist. He is the William A. Lane Professor at Duke University.

Life and work

Jameson studied in Munich, Berlin, and at Yale University. He completed a doctorate on Jean -Paul Sartre in Erich Auerbach.

Jameson's neo- Marxism, with its emphasis on social and historical totality, is strongly influenced by the immanent critique of Hegel and of the work of Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Sartre and Louis Althusser especially in the Marxist political and literary thought. He is well known as a theorist of postmodernism, as a description of the conditions at the end of the 20th century, when he is not a "Post- Modern " is.

In the 1950s he made in the USA there the previously unknown western undogmatic Marxism known and thus played a part in the development of the New Left in the United States.

Jameson's best-known works are The Political Unconscious, Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, and Marxism and Form. He has published books on politics, culture and literature. Published in German in 1999, inter alia, lust and terror of incessant change of all things (English Brecht on method), and 2004 Modernist Myths (English A Singular Modernity ).

2008 Jameson was awarded the highly doped Holberg Prize.

Works

In English:

  • Postmodernism and Cultural Theories. Lectures in China. 1987; Abbreviation:后 现代 主义 与 文化 理论, Pinyin: Hòuxiàndàizhǔyì yǔ Wenhua lǐlùn ( translated by Tang Xiaobing )
  • Ideologies of Modelling. 2 vols. Routledge, New York / London 1988
  • Late Marxism. Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic. Versoe, New York / London 1990
  • Signatures of the Visible. Routledge, New York / London 1990
  • Brecht and Method. Verso, New York / London 1998
  • The Cultural Turn. Verso, New York / London 1998
  • A Singular Modernity. Essay on the Ontology of the Present. Verso, New York / London 2002
  • Archaeologies of the Future. The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. Verso, New York / London 2005
  • The Modernist Papers. Verso, New York / London 2007
  • Fables of Aggression. Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist (2008, .. . Rev Neuausg d Erstveröff 1979 )
  • Ideologies of Theory ( 2008; Neuausg rev d première of 1988.. . )
  • Valences of the Dialectic. Verso, New York / London 2009
  • The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of the Spirit. Verso, New York / London 2010
  • Representing ' Capital ': A Reading of Volume One. Verso, New York / London 2011

In German:

  • The political unconscious. Literature as a symbol of social action. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988
  • Late Marxism. Adorno or the Persistence of the Dialectic. Argument, Hamburg 1991
  • Pleasure and terror of incessant transformation of all things: Brecht and the future. Argument, Hamburg 1998
  • Myths of modernity. Kadmos, Berlin 2004
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