Ideologies of Theory, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson’s long career as a critic. They chart a body of work suspended by the twin poles of literary scholarship and political history, occupying a space vibrant with the tension between critical exegesis and the Marxist intellectual tradition. Jameson’s work pushes out the boundaries of the text, making evident the interaction between literature and the disciplines of psychoanalysis, philosophy and cultural theory, all of which are shown to be inseparable from their ideological milieu. The essays in this volume track a shift from ideological analysis to the phenomenology of everyday life, and constitute a rigorous and passionate argument for the necessity of theory as the simultaneous critique of empiricism and idealist philosophy.
Author(s): Fredric Jameson
Edition: 1
Publisher: Verso Books
Year: 2008
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF | Full TOC
Pages: 693
Tags: Criticism; Criticism History 20th Century; History; Ideology; Ideology History 20th Century; Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy, Modern 20th Century
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Epigraph
1 | Situations of Theory
1 | Metacommentary
Notes
2 | The Ideology of the Text
I
II
III
IV
Notes
3 | Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan
I
II
III
IV
Notes
4 | Criticism in History
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Notes
5 | Symbolic Inference; or, Kenneth Burke and Ideological Analysis
Notes
6 | Figural Relativism; or, The Poetics of Historiography
Notes
7 | Modernism and Its Repressed; or, Robbe-Grillet as Anti-Colonialist
Notes
8 | Morality Versus Ethical Substance; or, Aristotelian Marxism in Alasdair MacIntyre
Notes
9 | On Negt and Kluge
Notes
10 | Benjamin's Readings
Notes
11 | Foreword to Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition
Notes
12 | Foreword to Jacques Attali's Noise: The Political Economy of Music
Notes
13 | Mar Angenot and the Literary History of a Year
Notes
14 | On "Cultural Studies"
It's Not My Field!
Social Groups: Popular Front or United Nations?
Cultural Studies as a Substitute for Marxism
Articulation: A Truck Driver's Manual
Culture and Group Libido
Free-Floating Intellectuals
Populism as Doxa
The Geopolitical Imperative
Conclusions and Utopia
Notes
15 | The End of Temporality
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements
Part 1 | Situations of Theory
Part II | Syntax of History
