Новинки Фредрика Джеймисона

В своей самой масштабной по охвату и доступной работе Фредрик Джеймисон утверждает, что постмодернизм представляет собой культурный ответ на последние системные изменения в мировом капитализме. Он пытается найти определение термину, который содержал так много значений, что практически утратил всякую историческую значимость. Он обозревает культурный ландшафт постмодерна, оценивая политические возможности нового термина и рассматривая развитие постмодернизма во множестве различных областей — от рыночной идеологии до архитектуры, от живописи до инсталляций, от видеоарта и высокой литературы до деконструкции.

Наконец, Джеймисон переоценивает понятие постмодернизма в свете постмодернистской критики тотализации и исторических нарративов — от понятия декаданса до динамики малых групп, от религиозного фундаментализма до научной фантастики, — затрагивая вопрос о природе современной культурной критики и возможностях когнитивного картографирования в нынешней многонациональной мировой системе.

В своей самой масштабной по охвату работе Фредрик Джеймисон утверждает, что постмодернизм представляет собой культурный ответ на последние системные изменения в мировом капитализме. Он пытается найти определение термину, который содержал так много значений, что практически утратил всякую историческую значимость. Он обозревает культурный ландшафт постмодерна, оценивая политические возможности нового термина и рассматривая развитие постмодернизма во множестве различных областей — от рыночной идеологии до архитектуры, от живописи до инсталляций, от видеоарта и высокой литературы до деконструкции.

Наконец, Джеймисон переоценивает понятие постмодернизма в свете постмодернистской критики тотализации и исторических нарративов — от понятия декаданса до динамики малых групп, от религиозного фундаментализма до научной фантастики, — затрагивая вопрос о природе современной культурной критики и возможностях когнитивного картографирования в нынешней многонациональной мировой системе.

High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson’s major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against late-modernist ones (in film) as well as a variety of postmodern experiments (from SF to The Wire, from “Eurotrash” in opera to Altman and East German literature): all of which attempt, in their different ways, to invent new forms to grasp a specific social totality. Throughout the historical periods, argues Jameson, the question of narrative persists through its multiple formal changes and metamorphoses.

The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel

Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler’s work that reconstructs both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler’s invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a megalopolis uniquely distributed by an unpromising nature into a variety of distinct neighborhoods and private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical.

Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson’s first book-length engagement with Marx’s magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx’s thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictions that struggle toward resolution, giving rise to new antinomies and a new forward movement. These immense segments overlap each other to combine and develop on new levels in the same way that capital itself does, stumbling against obstacles that it overcomes by progressive expansions, which are in themselves so many leaps into the unknown.

Сборник статей известного американского теоретика культуры Фредрика Джеймисона (р. 1934) представляет основные теоретические интересы и творческие мотивы автора. Это первое столь представительное издание работ Ф. Джеймисона на русском языке. В книгу вошли работы, ранее опубликованные в книгах «Политическое бессознательное: Нарратив как социально-символический акт» (1981), «Тюрьма языка: Критическое разъяснение структурализма и русского формализма» (1972), «Марксизм и форма: Диалектические теории литературы в 20 в.»  (1971), «Постмодернизм, или Культурная логика позднего капита­лизма» (1991), «Идеологии теории. Очерки 1971–1986» (1988),…

The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since struggle to reconcile the social conditions of their own creation with the history of this mode of writing: the so-called modernist novel is one attempted solution to this conflict, as is the ever-more impoverished variety of commercial narratives—what today’s book reviewers dub “serious novels,” which are an attempt at the impossible endeavor to roll back the past.

Fredric Jameson examines the most influential theories of artistic and literary realism, approaching the subject himself in terms of the social and historical preconditions for realism’s emergence. The realist novel combined an attention to the body and its states of feeling with a focus on the quest for individual realization within the confines of history.

In contemporary writing, other forms of representation—for which the term “postmodern” is too glib—have become visible: for example, in the historical fiction of Hilary Mantel or the stylistic plurality of David Mitchell’s novels. Contemporary fiction is shown to be conducting startling experiments in the representation of new realities of a global social totality, modern technological warfare, and historical developments that, although they saturate every corner of our lives, only become apparent on rare occasions and by way of the strangest formal and artistic devices.
In a coda, Jameson explains how “realistic” narratives survived the end of classical realism. In effect, he provides an argument for the serious study of popular fiction and mass culture that transcends lazy journalism and the easy platitudes of recent cultural studies.

In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.

Whereas other writers have interpreted the Phenomenology as a rigidly closed system, Jameson discovers it to be a more fluid, open-ended work. Hegel’s mind is revealed to be a less systematic mechanism than normally thought, one whose ideas never solidify into pure abstractions. The conclusion of the Phenomenology, on the aftermath of the French Revolution, is examined as a provisional stalemate between the political and the social—a situation from which Jameson draws important lessons for our own age.

Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture stand alongside essays on the status of history, theory, Marxism, and the subject in an age propelled by finance capital and endless spectacle. Surveying the debates that blazed up around his earlier essays, Jameson responds to critics and maps out the theoretical positions of postmodernism’s prominent friends and foes.

Investigates the development of the Utopian form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of Utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. This book also explores the relationship between utopia and science fiction through the representations of otherness and a study of the works of Philip Dick, Ursula Le Guin, William Gibson and others.

In the name of an assault on “totalization” and “identity,” a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism’s dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernism and “post-politics.” A case in point is recent interpretation of one of the greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Theodor Adorno. In this powerful book, Fredric Jameson proposes a radically different reading of Adorno’s work, especially of his major works on philosophy and aesthetics: Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory.
Jameson argues persuasively that Adorno’s contribution to the development of Marxism remains unique and indispensable. He shows how Adorno’s work on aesthetics performs deconstructive operations yet is in sharp distinction to the now canonical deconstructive genre of writing. He explores the complexity of Adorno’s very timely affirmation of philosophy — of its possibility after the “end” of grand theory. Above all, he illuminates the subtlety and richness of Adorno’s continuing emphasis on late capitalism as a totality within the very forms of our culture. In its lucidity, Late Marxism echoes the writing of its subject, to whose critical, utopian intelligence Jameson remains faithful.

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystallize 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.