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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Paperback – Illustrated, January 6, 1992

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"Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as America's most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions; a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism); and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study."—Jonathan Arac

“A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought.”―
Ned Lukacher, Choice

“An encyclopedic grasp of modern culture.”―
Stuart Hall, Marxism Today

“For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism . . . Jameson’s book is a fundamental, nonpareil text.”―
Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times (London)

“Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction. . . .
Postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster.”―Terry Eagleton, Irish Times

“No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism’s history so well as Fredric Jameson.”―
Michael Bérubé, Voice Literary Supplement

“The scope and profundity of
Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video, and economics, is truly staggering. . . . Brilliant . . .”―Siauddin Sardar, The Independent

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"Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as America's most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions; a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism); and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study."--Jonathan Arac

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Duke University Press; Reprint edition (January 6, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 460 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0822310902
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0822310907
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1710L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2017
    This book reminds me of Moby Dick: pursuit of a leviathan topic, Don Quixote: tilting at multivalent windmills (erudite, imaginative, wide-ranging titlting) – Infinite Jest: easily reduced by one-third for clarity and finally The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, fellow traveler in academia: erudite to the extreme, in-depth information, vocabulary builder, regular use of “Gould’s Glu-Stik”, i.e. never use just one word when you can use three that mean more or less the same thing and find the most obscure jargon with the most syllables. The professor wants us to learn new words and new ways to discuss abstract, subtle, often ephemeral ideas. Jameson takes the reader on a journey through stuff he enjoys but knows little of with an amateur’s enthusiasm– architecture, music and visual art into matters that only he can understand – the work of his colleague Paul De Man, and deep into his own fully-explored and richly appointed wheelhouse filled with exciting ideas parsed from literature, literary theory, Marxism and economics. This book starts very slow and proceeds very slowly but the 100-page conclusion is balls-to-the wall big ideas in plain English – a fine summary of the particulars of postmodernism. This book is a great “broken plow” it is inefficient in its brokenness, but it stirs up all of the ideas necessary for others to formulate a broad synthesis. Jameson makes a few big errors-misreadings that create intellectual energy. His key error is that of too much optimism about the nature of late capitalism. He assigns its key feature to its multinational omnipresence without mentioning its destructive (to the USA middle class) cannibal colonialism, i.e. it is eating its young (and middle aged and old) Postmodern capitalism’s salient feature is its rampant destructiveness over the past 40 years, of the environment, the American middle class and third world autonomy (wrecked via “Economic Hitman” banking-mineral extraction infrastructure construction and operation). To miss this is to miss the Late Capitalism part of his ambitious title. As for the postmodernism part. FJ makes it clear in all he discusses throughout (though not noted by him as such) that there are three hermeneutics that might be used to explain postmodernism. These are 1. Marxism 2. Poststructuralism (PS) and 3. My own theory reinforced throughout the book by multitude confusions-perplexities all noted and few explained - the Station Point (SP) (pinned/linear-modern, unpinned/multivalent-postmodern). Jameson uses the first two. The first centered on Marx, the other on Ferdinand de Saussure and his progeny, the F-9 (Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Debord, Deleuze, Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard – The French Nine). Jameson uses the language (intense jargon) of Saussure and his poststructuralist sons (filtered through Levi-Strauss and the Frankfurt School: Adorno, Lukacs, Bloch) mixed with standard Marxist econ-speak (commodities, proletariat, praxis, fetishism, labor, money, bourgeoisie etc) hoping that he can cover the entire postmodern waterfront. He cannot. He can speak about much of it in many realms and he finds many beautiful examples that he explores with imagination but his two-part heuristic only allows the Marxian-Saussurean to become theorized under his umbrella. The Marx-PS hermeneutic used by FJ is clarifies only part of the postmodern idea, the Saussurean-semiotic part whose language and ideas FJ uses in his effort to describe it all – the entire shebang. The key sign of this failure is his assumption of periodicity, i.e. that pomo-late capitalism is all the new stuff that happened in a certain era rather than all the stuff that has this or that specific characteristic. It is his periodizing that hobbles any effort to formulate a thesis. The stuff of postmodernism noted by Jameson DID occur, DOES occur within a period but it’s nature is deeper and is explained by pinning / unpinning. FJ asserts that the postmodern-late capitalist idea is of the post WWII era and especially post 1965 (When Yale literary criticism professor Paul De Man caught F-9 Derriditis-a meme that spread like wildfire throughout the social sciences during 1970s and 1980s) Key takeaway from Jameson’s 2-part hermeneutic is that things-ideas-art-science that can be labelled postmodern are about space (synchronic) rather than time (diachronic). Postmodernism obliterates history and the privilege that precipitates from it. This space-time duality holds for all three hermeneutics: Marx, Saussure, Blake (pinned-unpinned) thus it is fundamental. The beauty of Jameson’s approach is that his territory is so large. He explores-reveals-discusses-analyzes much that can be left to others to label / analyze as genuinely postmodern ( JB-omnimodern) or simply additional High modernism-modernism (JB Ultramodernism). Bottom line: The postmodern epoch (JB:omnimodern epoch) began in 1912 not post WWII or 1965-1990. This is a great book more its own postmodern novel that a work of non-fiction and a fine entry point into the subject. Like a great novel or any great work of art this book has struggle written on every page.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2020
    This is a great book, albeit one that requires patience to read. Being a left wing materialist is also recommended. :)

    Note on the Kindle version: This is one of those ebppks produced by scanning a hardcopy. The result is rather messy. There is a whole section where "fi" is turned into "A": "Active" instead of "fictive", "Almic" instead of "filmic", etc. Very annoying!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2018
    I like logically consistent and materialistic approach to representation of cultural phenomena. I use this material for writing essays on media and cultural studies.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2014
    Should you buy it -- go to paragraph 3 below. What follows is my commentary.

    Jameson's Ideas are unabashedly Marxist, which is fine. Marx was an economist and made some prescient observations about capitalism. Whether Jameson's comments explain phenomena in visual culture can be a stretch, but it is methodology for criticism that works well enough, especially in the hands of thoughtful writers. I think Jameson is that, if at times too eager to stretch Marxism beyond its bounds. What is less forgivable is that Jameson continues the tradition common among cultural theorists of doing in ten pages what they could do just as well in one. In addition, he makes up words, terms, and phrases that attempt to draw 'just the right' distinctions and capture new ideas, but just add confusion, instead of just making the distinction and stating the idea. This practice is amusing since a working premise of a lot of postmodern theory is that language is intrinsically unreliable and imprecise. Of course Jameson tries to cure this by making more of it, rather than refining his use of it. It seems that Jameson, like his colleagues, thinks two spoons-full of bad medicine are better than one: More is better as an antidote to modernism's 'less is more'.

    So, should you by it? If you must get the stuff from the horse's mouth and just want to read it, Yes. If you like things that are needless difficult to access -- yes. Better from him than from another windbag who will add his own 'critical distinctions', making your job longer, or worse, sending back to read Jameson. If you need it for a course, of course you should buy it. The rest of the world should avoid it-- unless you have a taste for intellectual root canal-- wonderful if needed but an acquired taste otherwise.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2017
    as insightful 30 years ago and as it is today
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015
    I was so pleased to find book on my table. Will continue purchasing .
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2017
    Very good.
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  • Subhabrata Banerjee
    5.0 out of 5 stars One True Hard Nut To Crack
    Reviewed in India on September 25, 2021
    This books requires a good understanding of the theories of the Postmordern Theories as the book is a critique on Postmodernism and how consumerism and commodification in this stage has gradually served as a boon for the development of the finest stage of capitalism according to Jameson the late capitalist stage. Thus to understand this book I repeat once more, the reader must have a good understanding of Postmodernism
  • Gaia Lallini
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gran libro
    Reviewed in Italy on March 27, 2020
    Ritengo sia per addeto ai lavori e devo dire che è stato davvero interessante, preciso e mi ha aperto davvero la mente. Consigliatissimo
  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's full of great ideas. The only thing is that it is ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2016
    you must get this book. Essential for any basic understanding of post-modernism and late capitalism. What Jameson has done here is to try to relate aesthetics to the mode of production -- something that is ambitious and rare. It's full of great ideas. The only thing is that it is prolix. Don't let that put you off however and you will be rewarded.

    I should note that it's advisable buying this only if you've read a bit of Marx.
  • Guilherme Mariano
    5.0 out of 5 stars Jameson is simply awesome.
    Reviewed in Canada on May 26, 2014
    One of the best analysis of post-modernity ever made. Good for art, literature and architecture enthusiasts, professionals, critics and whatsoever.
  • Joan Lemmon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good Condition and an excellent read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2021
    This book is just what I wanted, and is an excellent read