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Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism.
Overview. Fredric Jameson is currently Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Romance Studies (French), and Director of the Institute for Critical Theory. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1959 and taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of California before coming to Duke in 1985.
Mar 25, 2020 · Fredric Jameson (b. 14 April 1934) is North America’s leading Marxist cultural theorist and critic. He is the Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Romance Studies (French) and Director of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University, where he has worked since 1985. Jameson has been the recipient of ...
Fredric Jameson (b. 1934) is generally considered to be one of the foremost contemporary Marxist literary critics writing in English. He has published a wide range of works analyzing literary and cultural texts and developing his own neo-Marxist theoretical position.
Deftly combining critical theory and rich textual analysis (especially of works by Honoré de Balzac, George Gissing, and Joseph Conrad), Jameson established in The Political Unconscious a properly Marxist approach to reading literature that included revised versions of the formalisms and historicisms then in vogue.
Aug 23, 2023 · This essay, accordingly, offers a brief exposition of the main tenets of his dialectical criticism, the internal politics of his defense of Theory, and how both relate to his theorization of utopia, for the sake of a rearticulation of the critical vocation of political theory.
Jun 1, 2016 · On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of “Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” in the New Left Review, Jameson looks back at the essay and considers the current state of capitalism, theory, art, and culture in relation to the concepts he adopted in 1984.
