
A Singular Modernity
essay on the ontology of the present
$23.20
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2013
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 |
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| 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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“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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