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Fredric Jameson
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American academic and literary critic (1934–2024)
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Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) was an American essayist, political scientist, writer, and literary critic. Born in Cleveland, he held citizenship in the United States and wrote in English. He was educated at Haverford College and Yale University, where his doctoral advisor was Erich Auerbach. Jameson worked as an employee at Duke University and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His fields of work included literary criticism, philosophy, political theory, and Marxism. He was influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vladimir Lenin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Georg Lukács. Among his notable works are *Marxism and form*, *Mimesis*, and *Expression, Construction*. He received the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Pilgrim Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Jameson died in Durham.
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Person · Open Library
- 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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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 201
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Tissue-based map of the human proteome
· 2015 · cited 14,095x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,666x
- A subcellular map of the human proteome
· 2017 · cited 2,529x
- A model to predict poor survival in patients undergoing transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts
· 2000 · cited 2,419x
- T cell receptor antagonist peptides induce positive selection
· 1994 · cited 2,225x
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Quotes
- “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—sometimes in well-nigh Weberian or Foucauldian tones—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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Key facts
- 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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Encyclopedic overview
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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