Fredric Jameson

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1685-8
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the work of Fredric Jameson, one of the most important cultural critics writing today. Homer provides a clear exposition and appraisal of Jameson's theories and an assessment of his contribution to contemporary cultural theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Homer, Sean

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations.

Introduction.

Sartre: From Situation to History.

Part I: The Dialectics of Form:.

The Logic of Form.

The Logic of Content.

Metacommentary.

Part II: History: The Political Unconscious:.

Marxism and Historicism.

History as Political Unconscious.

History as Narrative.

History as Whose Narrative?.

Part III: The Politics of Desire:.

Ideologies of Pleasure.

Ideologies of Desire.

The Production of Desire.

Versions of a Libidinal Apparatus.

The Dialectic of Ideology and Utopia.

Part IV: Postmodernism and Late Capitalism:.

The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.

The Periodization of Late Capitalism.

Video Art and Postmodern Textuality.

Realism - Modernism - Postmodernism.

The Dialectic of Modernism and Postmodernism.

Part V: The Spatial Logic of Late Capitalism:.

The Reassertion of Space in Social Theory.

The Phenomenology of Postmodernism.

The Social Production of Space.

The Semiotics of Space.

The Spatio-Temporal Dialectic of Modernity and Postmodernity.

Part VI: Marxism, Totality and the Politics of Difference:.

The Postmodern Critique of Totality.

Marxism and Totality.

Mediation and Reification.

The Third World: Identity and Difference.

Conclusion.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Sean Homer is Lecturer in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Sheffield.