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Oct 31, 2024 | 
newleftreview.org | Fredric Jameson
Homer is today at many removes from us; a classic, foundational or canonical, whose original text or meaning no one seriously believes we can recapture.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Fredric Jameson
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel distinguished three kinds of history: that of participants or contemporary witnesses; a history reconstructed around a theme, possibly but not necessarily arbitrary; and, finally, history viewed as the progression of the Idea, as the realization of the Absolute. The history of French theory I propose here can be grasped from all three perspectives.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
versobooks.com | Fredric Jameson
Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America’s leading Marxist critic'Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Fredric Jameson |Terry Eagleton
In the later decades of the last century, a new wave of ideas broke across the study of literature throughout the world. Known simply as ‘theory’, it ranged from structuralism to feminism, semiotics to hermeneutics, Marxism to deconstruction. All this was formidably abstract stuff, but it managed to be sexy as well. Its intellectual ambitiousness, along with its readiness to raise fundamental questions, attracted some of the most talented students of the day.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
mronline.org | Fredric Jameson
This essay was originally published in Monthly Review 47, no. 11 (April 1996). ~(Dedicated to the memory of William Pomerance)“Postmarxisms” regularly emerge at those moments in which capitalism itself undergoes a structural metamorphosis. Marxism is the science of capitalism, or better still, in order to give depth at once to both terms, it is the science of the inherent contradictions of capitalism.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
versobooks.com | Michael Chanan |Fredric Jameson
The death of Fredric Jameson leaves a huge gap in our intellectual world. Twenty-five years ago, when Jameson invited me to spend a semester at Duke University as a visiting professor, I sat in on his graduate seminar on Lacan. One day he asked my help to solve a problem. He’d mixed up his diary and had agreed to give a lecture somewhere else on the day of the seminar, so would I shoot a video of the seminar and show it to the students on the day?
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
today.duke.edu | Fredric Jameson
Published September 23, 2024 Tags Literature Faculty Schools Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Scholars Knut Schmidt Nielsen Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature Professor of Literature Professor of Romance Studies View Scholars@Duke Profile Fredric Jameson, a cultural theorist and literary critic who influenced generations of scholars and helped raise the international profile of Duke University's literature program, died Sunday. He was 90.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
versobooks.com | Fredric Jameson
“Exploding like so many magnesium flares in the night sky, Fredric Jameson’s writings have lit up the shrouded landscape of the postmodern.” - Perry AndersonFew radical thinkers have made such an incredible impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy as Fredric Jameson. We collected some of his best work on modernism, Benjamin, Hegel, and more below. On the Verso Blog: a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson's oeuvre, to celebrate his 90th birthday.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
theparisreview.org | Fredric Jameson
By Fredric Jameson September 6, 2024 From a lecture given to students at Duke University on January 21, 2021. In the early years of the fifth century, a famous philosopher visited Athens. You could say that this philosopher, Parmenides, was the inventor of ontology, and thus, in a way, the first real philosopher. Athens was a small town, and everybody knew who he was.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
versobooks.com | Fredric Jameson
The gerund Representing Capital (2011) casts at least two vectors of analysis: representing Capital, volume one, the book, and representing capital, the subject of modern totality. These two vectors involve close reading and the tropology of concepts – the literary critic’s purview, on the one side – and the poetics of social forms, the study of the modes of appearance of the structuring determinations of the world as we know it – the theorist’s purview, on the other side.
