Fredric Jameson

The Project of Dialectical Criticism

Robert T Tally author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pluto Press

Published:20th Jun '14

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Fredric Jameson was the most important Marxist critic in the contemporary world. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson remained committed to seemingly old-fashioned philosophical discourses, most notably dialectical criticism and utopian thought.

In Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism, Robert Tally surveys Jameson's entire oeuvre, from his early studies of Sartre and formal criticism through his engagements with postmodernism and globalisation to his recent readings of Hegel, Marx and the valences of the dialectic.

The book is both a comprehensive critical guide to Jameson’s theoretical project and itself a convincing argument for the power of dialectical criticism to understand the world today.

'One doesn't endorse one's self, but I can say that ... I'm most grateful to have available such a useful introduction to that work' -- Fredric Jameson
'Offers us an engaging, intimate, and elegant portrait of Fredric Jameson. Tally's fine reconstruction of Jameson's wide-ranging and often intimidating work offers a portrait of Jameson as a thinker who argues that we must interpret the world in order to change it' -- Benjamin Noys, author of The Persistence of the Negative

'Robert Tally’s study provides a crisp and coherent guide to the thought of a figure future generations, hopefully, will look back on as one of the prophets of their utopia.'

-- Sean Ledwith, Marx & Philosophy

ISBN: 9780745332116

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 366g

208 pages