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	Fredric Jameson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jameson's work focused on the relation between the style of Sartre's writings and the political and ethical positions of his existentialist philosophy.
		Jameson's dissertation, though it drew on a long tradition of European cultural analysis, differed markedly from the prevailing trends of Anglo-American academia (which were empiricism and logical positivism in philosophy and linguistics, and New Critical formalism in literary criticism).
		Jameson's analysis of postmodernism attempted to view it as historically grounded; he therefore explicitly rejected any moralistic opposition to postmodernity as a cultural phenomenon, and continued to insist upon a Hegelian immanent critique.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fredric_Jameson (1664 words)

	Fredric Jameson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jameson was born in (The largest city in Ohio; located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie; a major Great Lakes port) Cleveland, (A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region) Ohio.
		Jameson's work focused on the relation between the style of Sartre's writings and the political and ethical positions of his (A philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable) existentialist philosophy.
		Jameson's shift toward Marxism was also driven by his increasing political connection with the (Click link for more info and facts about New Left) New Left and (Someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes) pacifist movements.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/fredric_jameson.htm (1265 words)

	Jameson, Fredric
		Jameson has characteristically appropriated into his theory a wide range of positions, from Structuralism to poststructuralism and from psychoanalysis to Postmodernism, producing a highly eclectic and original brand of Marxian literary and cultural theory.
		Jameson's first three major books and most of his early articles involve the effort to develop a literary criticism that cuts against the dominant formalist and conservative models of New Criticism and the academic Anglo-American establishment.
		Within his analysis, Jameson situates postmodern culture in the framework of a theory of stages of society--based on a neo-Marxian model of stages of capitalist development--and argues that postmodernism is part of a new stage of capitalism.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/fredric_jameson.html (1664 words)

	Illuminations: Kellner
		Fredric Jameson is generally considered to be one of the foremost contemporary English-language Marxist literary and cultural critics.
		Jameson thus develops in his early 1970s work a totalizing, synthesizing thought which provides a systematic framework for cultural studies and a theory of history within which dialectical criticism can operate.
		Jameson thus emerges as a synthetic and eclectic Marxian cultural theorist who attempts to preserve and develop the Marxian theory while analyzing the politics and utopian moments of a stunning diversity of cultural texts.
	www.uta.edu /huma/illuminations/kell19.htm (1419 words)

	Contacts - Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This paradoxicality is what Jameson now identifies as the antinomies of postmodernity, the aporia or theoretical impasses which mesmerise postmodern theory and unlike the older (modernist) discourse of dialectical contradiction remain unresolvable at a higher level of abstraction.
		Jameson's initial intervention in the postmodern debate, in a 1982 essay `The Politics of Theory',2 was primarily an attempt to map the ideological landscape of postmodernism, however, the article concluded on a characteristic Jamesonian note, insisting on `the need to grasp the present as history'.
		Jameson's notion of cognitive mapping is founded upon a dialect of perception but it lacks any real sense of the physical and spatial practice that would follow from it.
	www.shef.ac.uk /uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/sihomer/limits.html (4631 words)

	Fredric Jameson's Postmodern Marxism
		Jameson has been described as "the most important cultural critic writing in English today", and it is important to begin an analysis by understanding where his background interests lie, the traditions or theorists to which he reacts, in other words, what constitutes the initial drive of the Jameson project.
		Crucial to Jameson's understanding of the postmodern and his project of a cultural politics is the transition from a temporal logic to a spatial logic in postmodernism.
		Jameson argues that the economic base of multinational capitalism has a fundamental relation to the cultural objects of the superstructure, yet the relation between these two is not to be found within the object itself.
	www.mun.ca /phil/codgito/vol4/v4doc2.html (6048 words)

	Cat's Corner - James Joyce - Musings 6: Response to Fredric Jameson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jameson does not lie when he says "lengthy preambles," not achieving a test of his hypothesis until page 57, but I find his explanation of the connection between modernism (past) and imperialism (still in existence) helpful.
		Jameson defines imperialism as the capitalist penetration of Third World countries, and reminds the reader of the past relationship between competing First World countries, rather than the current one between the metropolitan center and its colonized other (47-8).
		Jameson argues that the Odyssey is used as an exemplar of a map, in which there is spatial closure that reverses the imperial situation, redefining space as colonial.
	www.amherst.edu /~clboudre/jj_musings6_jameson (774 words)

	Style: Troping History: Modernist Residue in Fredric Jameson's Pastiche and Linda Hutcheon's Parody - Critical Essay
		Jameson's postmodernism shows his debt to both reader-response criticism and the work of Jean Baudrillard, who as early as Consumer Society (1970) was attempting to shift attention away from a traditional Marxist category--the means of production--and toward a new one--the means of consumption.
		Jameson claims that "this remarkable aesthetic is today meaningless and must be admired as one of the most intense historical achievements of the cultural past (along with the Renaissance or the Greeks or the Tang dynasty)." When Jameson speaks of modernism, he retains a notion of the aesthetic formulations of its producers.
		Jameson's shift to the axis of consumption is signaled in his characterization of himself as a "relatively enthusi astic consumer of postmodernism" (298).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_3_33/ai_62828819 (1141 words)

	JAC Online: 16.3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fredric Jameson was born in Cleveland in 1934.
		Jameson's style is notoriously difficult: convoluted and dense, as he attempts to embed many nuances of discussion and responses to potential criticism within sentences; and studded with a dazzling array of allusions to world high art and popular culture.
		Jameson has suggested that "the yuppies'" are representative postmodern people: "their cultural practices and values, their local ideologies, have articulated a useful dominant ideological and cultural paradigm for this stage of capital" ("Afterword," 1989, 381).
	www.cas.usf.edu /JAC/163/bizzell.html (6583 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Fredric Jameson: Reviews
		Jameson is interested in cinema's portrayal of the supranational nature of late capitalism that gives postmodernism its identity, in the ways in which the cinema's handling of space allegorizes not only our sense of ourselves as subjects, and, finally, in the total system of global commodification.
		Jameson's opening chapter on the conspiracy cinema is his most compelling, but it has only little bearing on the rest of the essays.
		Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious is a major work of critical theory, surpassing his earlier books in scope and subtlety of argumentation...The result of his effort is a compelling, forceful argument in favor of the primacy of Marxism over contending strategies of interpretation.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/jameson/reviews.html (2144 words)

	Fredric Jameson - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jameson's best-known works include The Political Unconscious, Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, and Marxism and Form; he has published dozens of books on politics, culture, and literature.
		Jameson's neo-Marxism, with its emphasis on social and historical totality, is strongly influenced by the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel through the work of Georg Lukács in Marxist political and literary thought.
		He is also widely known as a theorist of postmodernism, as a description of the current historical condition at the end of the twentieth century, though Jameson is by no means a "post-modernist."
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Fredric_Jameson (111 words)

	Postmodern totalities and Fredric Jameson
		Jameson summarises his theoretical project as follows: The exposition will take up in turn...constitutive features of the postmodern...a brief account of postmodernist mutations in the lived experience of built space itself, some reflections on the mission of political art in the bewildering space of late or multinational capital (1992, 6).
		Jameson's point here is that the reception of the shoes have nothing to do with the style or the content which they represent; what they have to do with is the moment of their reception within the cultural dominant of late capitalism, postmodernism.
		Again, when Jameson wishes to show how the loss of history, in the form of a schizophrenic mutation, is characterised by a radical shift in the subject's experience he falls into the same trap which characterises his inability to traverse the space he locates between the deferred symptom and the given dominant.
	www.uwc.ac.za /arts/english/interaction/94js.htm (2070 words)

	Marxist theorist Fredric Jameson to speak Jan. 25 (1/99) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fredric Jameson, the William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University, will launch the winter quarter series of the Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and Arts at 7 p.m.
		Jameson also will sign copies of his books at the Bookstore at noon Tuesday, Jan. 26, and participate in a discussion that afternoon from 4 to 6 p.m.
		Jameson's essays on such topics as the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles and the French syntax of Claude Simon's novels, collected in Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, present postmodernism as the cultural representation of multinational capitalism.
	www.stanford.edu /group/news/relaged/990119jameson.html (635 words)

	Fredric Jameson - The End of Temporality - Fredric Jameson
		Fredric Jameson is the William A. Lane Jr.
		Jameson’s Marxism is a capacious one—not eclectic, but attentive to the logic of the critical situation.
		Jameson is the author of seventeen books and dozens of essays.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /jameson_end_temporality.htm (644 words)

	"Dialectics of Disaster" Essay
		Jameson has long argued that one of the most significant markers of postmodernity is the causal relationship between the condition of historical amnesia and the loss of history ("Postmodernism and Consumer Society" 125).
		Jameson's conception of historical amnesia was first defined in his essay "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" which was given as an address at the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Arts in 1982 and later published to great acclaim in the New Left Review in 1984 (FOOTNOTE 2).
		Jameson seems to redefine postmodernism in "The Dialectics of Disaster" as a condition lacking the playful subversiveness that was so important to his earlier understanding of this epochal term.
	www.english.ucsb.edu /grad/student-pages/smclemore/essay.html (2191 words)

	Jameson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For Jameson the first post-Marxist is Bernstein appearing at the beginning of the modern itself.
		Jameson assumes ‘perhaps unjustly’ that ‘political reasons most often motivate the philosophical debates’ around ideas like ‘totality and telos’ e.t.c.
		Jameson is important to contrast with other positive post-modernisms, like Negri for instance in his recognition of the defeat of a certain left project based around the proletariat.
	www.generation-online.org /p/pjameson.htm (359 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions Series) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jameson begins his work with an intricate reading of a painting by Van Gogh and contrasts it to Warhol's "Diamond Dust Shoes," the former as the symptom of a typical "modernist" work and the latter as a prime example of a "postmodernist" one.
		Jameson refers to this cultural recycling as historicism (the random cannibalization of all styles of the past.) It is an increasing primacy of the 'neo'(new) and a world was transformed into sheer images of itself.
		Jameson also suggests that this latest mutation in space, postmodern hyperspace, (he provides the Bonaventura hotel as an example) has finally succeeded in transcending the capacities of the individual human body to locate itself, to organize its immediate surroundings perceptually, and cognitively to map its position in a mappable external world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822310902?v=glance (2204 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Jameson Reader (Blackwell Readers) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Throughout the Sixties, Jameson read deeply in Marxist literature, from Mehring and Plekhanov to Adorno, Lukacs, and Sartre, and his extensive research and immersion in Marxism resulted in 1971's seminal "Marxism and Form," a landmark in Marxist criticism and an unsurpassed dialectical survey of the 20th century's most important communist writings.
		With this book, Jameson established himself as the foremost Marxist critic of his time, rivalled only by Terry Eagleton, whose approaches to criticism and the dialectic are highly disparate from Jameson's.
		Jameson's interests and expertise are catholic, and his prose style, so often referred to as "difficult" or "impenetrable," has always struck me with its elegance, precision, and singularity.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0631202706?v=glance (979 words)

	Polity Book Details: Fredric Jameson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Detailed analyses are given of contemporary debates within Marxist cultural theory, post-structuralism and postmodernism, including dialectical theories of literature, the representation of history, the politics of desire, spatial theory, and the status of totalizing thought.
		All of Jameson's major works are considered and Homer gives a lucid and critical assessment of the debates to which they have given rise.
		Fredric Jameson will be invaluable to students and academics in literary and cultural studies, sociology and media studies, as well as those interested in one of the leading thinkers of our time.
	www.polity.co.uk /book.asp?ref=0745616860 (157 words)

	Fredric Jameson, William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies
		Fredric Jameson, William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies
		Professor Jameson received his PhD from Yale in 1959 and taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of California before coming to Duke in 1985.
		Among Professor Jameson's ongoing concerns is the need to analyze literature as an encoding of political and social imperatives, and the interpretation of modernist and postmodernist assumptions through a rethinking of Marxist methodology.
	fds.duke.edu /db/aas/Romance/faculty/jameson (217 words)

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