Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism

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POSTMODERNISM, OR, THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM FREDRIC JAMESON
For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism Jameson's book is a fundamental, nonpareil text. Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times
The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video and economics, is truly staggering. This is brilliant stuff Ziauddin Sardar, The Independent
Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction Postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster a timely riposte to fashionable leftist pessimism as much as it is an intellectual feast. Terry Eagleton, Irish Times
Oscillating between the intoxication of the latest postmodern theories and the sobriety of the Marxist tradition, Jameson's book confirms my belief that the most lucid and productive analyses of postmodernism have come from... Tovább

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POSTMODERNISM, OR, THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM FREDRIC JAMESON
For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism Jameson's book is a fundamental, nonpareil text. Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times
The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video and economics, is truly staggering. This is brilliant stuff Ziauddin Sardar, The Independent
Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction Postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster a timely riposte to fashionable leftist pessimism as much as it is an intellectual feast. Terry Eagleton, Irish Times
Oscillating between the intoxication of the latest postmodern theories and the sobriety of the Marxist tradition, Jameson's book confirms my belief that the most lucid and productive analyses of postmodernism have come from those who are hostile to, or at least deeply ambivalent about, its implications. Simon Reynolds, The Observer
his local insights are so often remarkably acute, his prose beguiling, his command of varied cultural fields impressive Stephen Howe, New Statesman and Society
Fredric Jameson is William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of both the Graduate Program in Literature and the Duke Center for Critical Theory at Duke University. He has published widely on Marxism, literary theory, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. His books include Marxism and Form, The Prison House of Language, The Political Unconscious, The Ideologies of Theory: Essays 1971-1986, Fables of Aggression, and Late Marxism: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic. Vissza