Fredric Jameson
Fredric Ruff Jameson was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) and The Political Unconscious (1981).
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Cleveland
- Educated at
- Yale UniversityHaverford College
- Awards
- 🏆 Holberg International Memorial Prize🏆 Pilgrim Award
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Erich Auerbach
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Kim Stanley Robinson
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Trending topics shown first"If we are unable to unify the past, present, and future of the sentence, then we are similarly unable to unify the past, present, and future of our own biographical experience or psychic life."
"Utopia is a spatial matter that might be thought to know potential change in fortunes in so spatialized a culture as the postmodern; but if this last is a dehistoricized and dehistorizing as I some ti…"
"Postmodernism theory is one of those attempts: the effort to take the temperature of the age without instruments and in a situation in which we are not even sure there is so coherent a thing as an "ag…"
"The last few years have been marked by an inverted millenarianism in which premonition of the future, catastrophic or redemptive, have been replaced by senses of the end of this or that ; taken togeth…"
"If the ideas of a ruling class were once the dominant ideology of bourgeois society, the advanced capitalist countries today are now a field of stylistic and discursive heterogeneity without norm. Fac…"
"The problem of postmodernism - how its fundamental characteristics are to be described, whether it even exists in the first place, whether the very concept is of any use, or is, on the contrary, a mys…"
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1934
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