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Also known as Fredric Ruff Jameson, Fredric R. Jameson

American academic and literary critic (1934–2024)

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Born
14 April 1934
Died
2024
Works
61

Top works

  • Marxism and form
  • 馬克思主義
  • 後現代主義或晚期資本主義的文化邏輯
  • O marxismo tardio
  • Mimesis, Expression, Construction

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Active from
1951-04-20

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Total plays
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  • Adorno retains the concept of the system and even makes it, as target and object of critique, the very center of his own anti-systematic thinking. ... His most powerful philosophical and aesthetic interventions are all implacable monitory reminders&mdash;sometimes in well-nigh Weberian or Foucauldian tones&mdash;of our imprisonment within system, the forgetfulness or repression of which binds us all the more strongly to it.
  • It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that is due to some weakness in our imaginations.

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Born
Fredric Ruff Jameson , ( 1934-04-14 ) April 14, 1934, Cleveland , Ohio , U.S.
Died
September 22, 2024 (2024-09-22) (aged 90), Killingworth, Connecticut , U.S.
Spouse
Susan Willis
Education
Haverford College ( BA ), Yale University ( PhD )
Thesis
The Origins of Sartre's Style (1959)
Doctoral advisor
Erich Auerbach
Era
Contemporary philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Western Marxism Marxist hermeneutics
Institutions
Harvard University (1959–67) UC San Diego (1967–76) Yale University (1976–83) UC Santa Cruz (1983–85) Duke University (1985–2024)
Doctoral students
Kim Stanley Robinson , Sara Danius
Notable students
John Beverley
Main interests
Marxist cultural analysis , utopia Marxist literary criticism , history postmodernism structuralism cultural studies science fiction modernism narrative dialectics
Notable ideas
Alternate modernity Cognitive mapping National allegory Political unconscious Vanishing mediator

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Fredric Ruff Jameson (April 14, 1934 – September 22, 2024) was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was 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) and The Political Unconscious (1981).

Jameson was the Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Romance Studies (French), and Director of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University. In 2012, the Modern Language Association gave Jameson its sixth Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement.

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