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Ideologies of Theory

Name: Ideologies of Theory
Author: Fredric Jameson
ISBN: 9781844672769

by Fredric Jameson

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Overview

The Ideologies of Theory, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson's long career as a critic. They chart a body of work suspended by the twin poles of literary scholarship and political history, occupying a space vibrant with the tension between critical exegesis and the Marxist intellectual tradition. Jameson's work pushes out the boundaries of the text, making evident the interaction between literature and the disciplines of psychoanalysis, philosophy and cultural theory, all of which are shown to be inseparable from their ideological milieu.

About the Author, Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.

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Library Journal

This expanded, single-volume edition of a two-volume collection first published in 1988 offers a deep and wide range of critical essays that eloquently demonstrate how ideology serves as a sturdy bridge between such poles as "fantasy and cognition...economics and aesthetics...[and] the private and the public." Jameson (Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke Univ.) includes pieces of varying length (from ten to nearly 50 pages) that he's composed between 1971 and 2008, which together show the maturation and sturdiness of intellectual rigor that was born in the politically charged 1960s. While his commentaries on Roland Barthes and Jean-FranAois Lyotard are as expected as his use and critique of Marxism, his serious concern with Ursula Le Guin and shopping malls is surprising but no less compelling. Students of postmodern history and literature will derive much from this work, while educated baby boomers will be delighted to find it on a larger public library's new books shelf. The compilation is rigorously rich, intellectually and aesthetically rewarding, and accessible.
—Francisca Goldsmith

Terry Eagleton

“Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction.”