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| Born | April 14, 1934 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Haverford College Yale University |
| Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Western Marxism Marxist hermeneutics[1] |
Main interests | Marxist literary criticism · Marxist cultural analysis · Postmodernism · modernism · science fiction · utopia · history · narrative · cultural studies · dialectics · structuralism |
Notable ideas | Cognitive mapping · national allegory · political unconscious |
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)[3] and The Political Unconscious (1981).
Jameson is the Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Romance Studies (French), and Director of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University.[4] In 2012, the Modern Language Association gave Jameson its sixth Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement.[5]
- ^ Mohanty, Satya P. "Jameson's Marxist Hermeneutics and the need for an Adequate Epistemology." In Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997, pp. 93–115.
- ^ David Kaufmann, "Thanks for the Memory: Bloch, Benjamin and the Philosophy of History," in Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch, ed. Jamie Owen Daniel and Tom Moylan (London and New York: Verson, 1997), p. 33.
- ^ Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1991. p. 438. ISBN 81-903403-2-8. OCLC 948832273.
- ^ "Fredric Jameson". Duke University – Scholars@Duke. Retrieved June 2, 2023.
- ^ "Fredric Jameson to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award". Today.duke.edu. December 4, 2011. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
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