The ideologies of theory / Fredric Jameson

By:

Jameson, Fredric

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Verso, 2008.Edition: Updated editionDescription: xi, 679 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9781844672776 (pbk.)
9781844672769

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

801.95 22

LOC classification:

PN94 .J36 2008

Contents:

Metacommentary -- The ideology of the text -- Imaginary and symbolic in Lacan -- Criticism in history -- Symbolic inference; or, Kenneth Burke and ideological analysis -- Figural relativism; or, the poetics of historiography -- Modernism and its repressed; or, Robbe-Grillet as anti-colonialist -- Morality versus ethical substance; or, Aristotelian Marxism in Alasdair MacIntyre -- On Negt and Kluge -- Benjamin's readings -- Foreword to Jean-Francois Lyotard's The postmodern condition -- Foreward to Jacques Attali's Noise: the political economy of music -- The theoretical hesitation: Benjamin's sociological predecessor -- How not to historicize theory -- The vanishing mediator; or Max Weber as storyteller -- Architecture and the critique of ideology -- Pleasure: a political issue -- Of islands and trenches: neutralization and the production of Utopian discourse -- Beyond the cave: demystifying the ideology of modernism -- Reflections on the Brecht-Lukacs debate -- Marxism and historicism -- Periodizing the 60s -- Foreward to A.J. Greimas' On meaning: selected writings in semiotic theory -- On the sexual production of western subjectivity -- Space and congestion: Rem Kool Hass and S, M, L, XL -- Future city -- Marc Angenot and the literary history of a year -- On "cultural studies" -- The end of temporality.

Summary: A collection of theoretical essays which were composed under a particular set of constraints - the need to explain the Marxist intellectual tradition within the bounds of literary criticism - thereby enlarging the conception of the literary text.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Metacommentary --
The ideology of the text --
Imaginary and symbolic in Lacan --
Criticism in history --
Symbolic inference; or, Kenneth Burke and ideological analysis --
Figural relativism; or, the poetics of historiography --
Modernism and its repressed; or, Robbe-Grillet as anti-colonialist --
Morality versus ethical substance; or, Aristotelian Marxism in Alasdair MacIntyre --
On Negt and Kluge --
Benjamin's readings --
Foreword to Jean-Francois Lyotard's The postmodern condition --
Foreward to Jacques Attali's Noise: the political economy of music --
The theoretical hesitation: Benjamin's sociological predecessor --
How not to historicize theory --
The vanishing mediator; or Max Weber as storyteller --
Architecture and the critique of ideology --
Pleasure: a political issue --
Of islands and trenches: neutralization and the production of Utopian discourse --
Beyond the cave: demystifying the ideology of modernism --
Reflections on the Brecht-Lukacs debate --
Marxism and historicism --
Periodizing the 60s --
Foreward to A.J. Greimas' On meaning: selected writings in semiotic theory --
On the sexual production of western subjectivity --
Space and congestion: Rem Kool Hass and S, M, L, XL --
Future city --
Marc Angenot and the literary history of a year --
On "cultural studies" --
The end of temporality.

A collection of theoretical essays which were composed under a particular set of constraints - the need to explain the Marxist intellectual tradition within the bounds of literary criticism - thereby enlarging the conception of the literary text.

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