Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

by Fredric Jameson

Overview

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822310907
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Publication date:	01/06/1992
Series:	Post-Contemporary Interventions
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.30(d)
Lexile:	1710L (what's this?)

About the Author

Fredric Jameson is Professor and Chair of the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the coeditor, with Masao Miyoshi, of The Cultures of Globalization, also published by Duke UniversityPress.

Editorial Reviews

An encyclopedic grasp of modern culture.

Marxism Today - Stuart Hall

The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video, and economics, is truly staggering. . . . Brilliant . . .

Siauddin Sardar

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.

Irish Times - Terry Eagleton

No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism’s history so well as Fredric Jameson.

Voice Literary Supplement - Michael Bérubé

Proceedings of a symposium, held as a satellite meeting of the Second World Congress of Neuroscience, at the University of Bremen in August 1987. An overview of lesion-induced neural plasticity in such areas as the spinal cord; vertibular, oculomotor, visual, and olfactory systems; the cerebellum; and the cerebral cortex. Many diagrams, charts, and illustrations. Some implications for the general understanding of neural plasticity are discussed. The title essay was published in 1984 in New Left Review, and a number of the other essays presented here also appeared in previous publications, sometimes in an earlier form. Jameson (comparative literature, Duke. ) evaluates the concept of postmodernism and surveys developments in a wide range of fields--market ideology, architecture, painting, installment art, film, video art, literature. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

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.

Terry Eagleton Terry Eagleton

"Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as America's most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions; a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism); and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study."—Jonathan Arac

From the Publisher

No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism’s history so well as Fredric Jameson.

Voice Literary Supplement - Michael Bérubé

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.

Sunday Times (London) - Gilbert Adair

A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought.

Choice - Ned Lukacher