Fredric Jameson - Literary & Political Theory (10 books)

FREDRIC JAMESON (b. 1934) is a prominent American literary critic and Marxist political theorist.

Jameson's early work focused on the relation between the style of Jean-Paul Sartre's writings and the political and ethical positions of his existentialist philosophy. His interest in Sartre led to intense study of Marxist literary theory and critical theory, particularly the thinkers associated with, and influenced by, the Frankfurt School. Jameson marked his full-fledged commitment to Hegelian-Marxist philosophy with the publication of THE POLITICAL UNCONSCIOUS (1981), the opening slogan of which is 'always historicize'. Perhaps his best-known book, POSTMODERNISM, OR, THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM (1991) presents a critique of modernism and postmodernism from a dialectical perspective.

His more recent contributions include ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE, a study of utopia and science fiction, and three related studies of dialectical theory: VALENCES OF THE DIALECTIC (2009), which includes Jameson's critical responses to Žižek, Deleuze and other contemporary theorists; THE HEGEL VARIATIONS (2010), a commentary on Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit'; and REPRESENTING CAPITAL (2011), an analysis of Marx's 'Das Kapital'.


The following books are in PDF format:

* ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (Verso, 2005)

* THE CULTURAL TURN: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 (Verso, 1998) -- also available as EPUB

* THE HEGEL VARIATIONS: On the 'Phenomenology of Spirit' (Verso, 2010)

* THE IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY (Verso, 2008)

* MARXISM AND FORM: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (Princeton University Press, 1971)

* THE POLITICAL UNCONSCIOUS: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Cornell University Press, 1981 / Routledge, 2002)

* POSTMODERNISM, OR, THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM (Verso, 1991) -- also available as EPUB

* REPRESENTING 'CAPITAL': A Reading of Volume One (Verso, 2011)

* SARTRE: THE ORIGINS OF A STYLE (Yale University Press, 1961)

* VALENCES OF THE DIALECTIC (Verso, 2009)

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Note: Jameson's essay on 'Modernism and Imperialism' (included in NATIONALISM, COLONIALISM AND LITERATURE [1999], co-authored with Terry Eagleton and Edward W. Said) can be found here:

http://kickasstorrents.ee/edward-w-said-orientalism-other-works-6-books-t8044515.html