Marxism and Form
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Abstraction
Aesthetic Theory
Allegory
Analogy
Antinomy
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Being and Nothingness
Bourgeoisie
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Commodity
Consciousness
Contradiction
Critical philosophy
Criticism
Critique
Determination
Dialectic
Division of labour
Epistemology
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Existentialism
Explanation
Herbert Marcuse
Historical materialism
History and Class Consciousness
Hypothesis
Idealism
Ideology
Illustration
Individualism
Instant
Institution
Irony
Jacques Derrida
Jean-Paul Sartre
Literary criticism
Literature
Martin Heidegger
Marxism
Marxist literary criticism
Modernity
Narration
Narrative
Neoclassicism
Novelist
Objectivity (philosophy)
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Potentiality and actuality
Pretext
Reality
Relativism
Requirement
Romanticism
Sensibility
Social reality
Sociology
Subjectivism
Subjectivity
Suggestion
Surrealism
Symptom
The Other Hand
The Philosopher
The Various
Theodor W. Adorno
Theory
Theory of Forms
Thought
Utopia
Walter Benjamin
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691013114
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 1974
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukacs, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Through penetrating readings of each theorist, Jameson developed a critical mode of engagement that has had tremendous in.uence. He provided a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making--in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form. Jameson's presentation of the critical thought of this Hegelian Marxism provided a stark alternative to the Anglo-American tradition of empiricism and humanism. It would later provide a compelling alternative to poststructuralism and deconstruction as they became dominant methodologies in aesthetic criticism.
One year after Marxism and Form, Princeton published Jameson's The Prison-House of Language (1972), which provided a thorough historical and philosophical description of formalism and structuralism. Both books remain central to Jameson's main intellectual legacy: describing and extending a tradition of Western Marxism in cultural theory and literary interpretation.
