Fredric Jameson

The Project of Dialectical Criticism

By (author) Robert T. Tally

Ebook (VitalSource) - £90.00

Publication date:

20 June 2014

Length of book:

208 pages

Publisher

Pluto Press

ISBN-13: 9781783711598

Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly old-fashioned philosophical discourses, most notably dialectical criticism and utopian thought.

In Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism, Robert Tally surveys Jameson's entire oeuvre, from his early studies of Sartre and formal criticism through his engagements with postmodernism and globalisation to his recent readings of Hegel, Marx and the valences of the dialectic.

The book is both a comprehensive critical guide to Jameson’s theoretical project and itself a convincing argument for the power of dialectical criticism to understand the world today.
'One doesn't endorse one's self, but I can say that ... I'm most grateful to have available such a useful introduction to that work'