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Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

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"Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as America's most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions; a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism); and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study."—Jonathan Arac

“A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought.” -- Ned Lukacher ― Choice

“An encyclopedic grasp of modern culture.” -- Stuart Hall ― Marxism Today

“For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism . . . Jameson’s book is a fundamental, nonpareil text.” -- Gilbert Adair ― Sunday Times (London)

“Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction. . . . Postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster.” -- Terry Eagleton ― Irish Times

“No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism’s history so well as Fredric Jameson.” -- Michael Bérubé ― Voice Literary Supplement

“The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video, and economics, is truly staggering. . . . Brilliant . . .” -- Siauddin Sardar ― The Independent

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"Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as America's most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions; a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism); and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study."--Jonathan Arac

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Duke University Press (January 6, 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 460 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0822310902
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0822310907
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1710L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.95 x 9.21 inches

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Michael Roberson

Talks in circles

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2019

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As others have mentioned, the author frequently spends several pages articulating and rephrasing concepts and ideas. Across the chapters I’ve read, he does a decent cross-analysis of the cultural phenomena of “postmodernism”, how and why it manifests. But this book could easily be half the length without much loss of content. The writing style is very academic. James frequently deploys tokenisitc words like “desacralizing” or “figuration”, and entire paragraphs seem to fold into themselves, without pushing forward the main idea. Overall worth the effort, subtle analysis and connections drawn across many philosophers / cultural products.

EDIT: After finishing this book, I'm dropping my review from 4 stars to 2 stars. Jameson desperately needs an editor, and his 50-page conclusion section basically piddles out without any clear resolution or statement of overarching worldview. In fact, the author states that making these conclusions is the one thing that postmodern theorists cannot, or should not, do. He basically writes in circles on purpose, never leaving an over-abstracted and wordy level of language, never really digging into any of the events or reference materials he touches on to use as little chess pieces or performance bits. The emphasis on space and video seems useless to discuss in words, and really just goes against the grain of the usual tools of critical analysis. To claim that history is fundamentally spatial is nothing but academic obscurantism. I was still confused as to how he situates Marxism against this postmodern technique of deconstruction, since to me they seem entirely at odds. Disappointed overall, but a helpful historical document for an intellectual movement that had little to say but plenty to express it with.

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Ronald S. Rice

A Jameson classic

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2020

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This is a great book, albeit one that requires patience to read. Being a left wing materialist is also recommended. :)

Note on the Kindle version: This is one of those ebppks produced by scanning a hardcopy. The result is rather messy. There is a whole section where "fi" is turned into "A": "Active" instead of "fictive", "Almic" instead of "filmic", etc. Very annoying!

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Andrey Zamkov

Holistic and well structured theory

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2018

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I like logically consistent and materialistic approach to representation of cultural phenomena. I use this material for writing essays on media and cultural studies.

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Shawn G. Welch

Not for those lacking in vocabulary

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2007

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A thorough, yet occasionally vague study of postmodernism. Jameson's flowery, somewhat esoteric writing style should be wrestled with care, as your journey through this book will most likely be met with more dead ends and re-readings than an actual elucidation of the topic, as the words "Yeah, okay...but what does that mean?" will probably pop into your head from time to time. Of course, the author is a distunguished critic and writer, and the book reflects that. However, if your aim is to get a brief review or critique on what postmodern is, search elsewhere.

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El Sooko

Solid if prolix: read it if it is required or if you just need to.

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2014

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Should you buy it -- go to paragraph 3 below. What follows is my commentary.

Jameson's Ideas are unabashedly Marxist, which is fine. Marx was an economist and made some prescient observations about capitalism. Whether Jameson's comments explain phenomena in visual culture can be a stretch, but it is methodology for criticism that works well enough, especially in the hands of thoughtful writers. I think Jameson is that, if at times too eager to stretch Marxism beyond its bounds. What is less forgivable is that Jameson continues the tradition common among cultural theorists of doing in ten pages what they could do just as well in one. In addition, he makes up words, terms, and phrases that attempt to draw 'just the right' distinctions and capture new ideas, but just add confusion, instead of just making the distinction and stating the idea. This practice is amusing since a working premise of a lot of postmodern theory is that language is intrinsically unreliable and imprecise. Of course Jameson tries to cure this by making more of it, rather than refining his use of it. It seems that Jameson, like his colleagues, thinks two spoons-full of bad medicine are better than one: More is better as an antidote to modernism's 'less is more'.

So, should you by it? If you must get the stuff from the horse's mouth and just want to read it, Yes. If you like things that are needless difficult to access -- yes. Better from him than from another windbag who will add his own 'critical distinctions', making your job longer, or worse, sending back to read Jameson. If you need it for a course, of course you should buy it. The rest of the world should avoid it-- unless you have a taste for intellectual root canal-- wonderful if needed but an acquired taste otherwise.

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Tee'd Zebra

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2017

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as insightful 30 years ago and as it is today

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It's full of great ideas. The only thing is that it is ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2016

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you must get this book. Essential for any basic understanding of post-modernism and late capitalism. What Jameson has done here is to try to relate aesthetics to the mode of production -- something that is ambitious and rare. It's full of great ideas. The only thing is that it is prolix. Don't let that put you off however and you will be rewarded.

I should note that it's advisable buying this only if you've read a bit of Marx.

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Don Hoad

Difficult but engrossing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2021

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A difficult read but with Kindle can look up meanings. Well worth the effort

Joan Lemmon

Good Condition and an excellent read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2021

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This book is just what I wanted, and is an excellent read

walser

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2018

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Classic. A bit hard to follow at times imo, but worth the effort.

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Moon Tzu

The bible of postmodernism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2014

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Although Jameson's style is dense and difficult at time, repeated readings of the text make his points clear. The points he makes are enlightened and incredibly well informed. It occasionally lacks examples of the theory, but the examples he does make reference some very interesting material. A must have for anyone interested in media studies, cultural theory and philosophy.

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