Marxism and Form: 20th Century Dialectical Theories - Couverture rigide

Jameson, Fredric

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691062048 ISBN 13 : 9780691062044

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1972

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Through penetrating readings of each theorist, Jameson developed a critical mode of engagement that has had tremendous in.uence. He provided a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making--in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form. Jameson's presentation of the critical thought of this Hegelian Marxism provided a stark alternative to the Anglo-American tradition of empiricism and humanism. It would later provide a compelling alternative to poststructuralism and deconstruction as they became dominant methodologies in aesthetic criticism. One year after Marxism and Form, Princeton published Jameson's The Prison-House of Language (1972), which provided a thorough historical and philosophical description of formalism and structuralism. Both books remain central to Jameson's main intellectual legacy: describing and extending a tradition of Western Marxism in cultural theory and literary interpretation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691062048
• ISBN 13: 9780691062044
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
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