Jameson Fredric
Jameson Fredric - Late Marxism Adorno Or The Persistence Of The Dialectic - Paperback
Jameson Fredric - Late Marxism Adorno Or The Persistence Of The Dialectic - Paperback
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Description: In the name of an assault on totalization and identity a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism's dialectical and utopian projects down the plug - hole of postmodernism and post - politics. A case in point is recent interpretation of one of the greatest twentieth - century philosophers Theodor Adorno. In this powerful book Fredric Jameson proposes a radically different reading of Adorno's work especially of his major works on philosophy and aesthetics: Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory. Jameson argues persuasively that Adorno's contribution to the development of Marxism remains unique and indispensable. He shows how Adorno's work on aesthetics performs deconstructive operations yet is in sharp distinction to the now canonical deconstructive genre of writing. He explores the complexity of Adorno's very timely affirmation of philosophy of its possibility after the end of grand theory. Above all he illuminates the subtlety and richness of Adorno's continuing emphasis on late capitalism as a totality within the very forms of our culture. In its lucidity Late Marxism echoes the writing of its subject to whose critical utopian intelligence Jameson remains faithful.
Title: Late Marxism Adorno Or The Persistence Of The Dialectic
Author(s): Jameson Fredric
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844675753
Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Date: 1/17/2007
Series: Radical Thinkers
Category: Marxism & Communism
Description: In the name of an assault on totalization and identity a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism's dialectical and utopian projects down the plug - hole of postmodernism and post - politics. A case in point is recent interpretation of one of the greatest twentieth - century philosophers Theodor Adorno. In this powerful book Fredric Jameson proposes a radically different reading of Adorno's work especially of his major works on philosophy and aesthetics: Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory. Jameson argues persuasively that Adorno's contribution to the development of Marxism remains unique and indispensable. He shows how Adorno's work on aesthetics performs deconstructive operations yet is in sharp distinction to the now canonical deconstructive genre of writing. He explores the complexity of Adorno's very timely affirmation of philosophy of its possibility after the end of grand theory. Above all he illuminates the subtlety and richness of Adorno's continuing emphasis on late capitalism as a totality within the very forms of our culture. In its lucidity Late Marxism echoes the writing of its subject to whose critical utopian intelligence Jameson remains faithful.
Title: Late Marxism Adorno Or The Persistence Of The Dialectic
Author(s): Jameson Fredric
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844675753
Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Date: 1/17/2007
Series: Radical Thinkers
Category: Marxism & Communism
