A Singular Modernity, 9781781680223
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Modernity and modernism: a controversial exploration to understand our present situation.

A Singular Modernity

essay on the ontology of the present

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    256 pages

  • Release Date

    14 January 2013

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Summary

Modernity Unveiled: A Fresh Perspective on a Contested Concept

The concepts of modernity and modernism are among the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this intervention, Fredric Jameson—perhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernity—excavates and explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.

The extraordinary revival of discussions of modernity, as well as of new theories of artist…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781781680223
ISBN-10:1781680221
Author:Fredric Jameson
Publisher:Verso Books
Imprint:Verso Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:14 January 2013
Weight:286g
Dimensions:198mm x 132mm x 17mm
Series:Radical Thinkers
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Critics Review

“Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction”- Terry Eagleton

Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction * Terry Eagleton *

About The Author

Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture’s relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.

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