Jameson, Fredric

The ideologies of theory / Fredric Jameson. - Updated edition. - xi, 679 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Metacommentary -- The ideology of the text -- Imaginary and symbolic in Lacan -- Criticism in history -- Symbolic inference : or, Kenneth Burke and ideological analysis -- Figural relativism : or, the poetics of historiography -- Modernism and its repressed : or, Robbe-Grillet as anti-colonialist -- Morality versus ethical substance : or, Aristotelian Marxism in Alasdair MacIntyre -- On Negt and Kluge -- Benjamin's readings -- Foreword to Jean-Francois Lyotard's The postmodern condition -- Foreward to Jacques Attali's Noise : the political economy of music -- The theoretical hesitation : Benjamin's sociological predecessor -- How not to historicize theory -- The vanishing mediator : or Max Weber as storyteller -- Architecture and the critique of ideology -- Pleasure : a political issue -- Of islands and trenches : neutralization and the production of Utopian discourse -- Beyond the cave : demystifying the ideology of modernism -- Reflections on the Brecht-Lukacs debate -- Marxism and historicism -- Periodizing the 60s -- Foreward to A.J. Greimas' On meaning : selected writings in semiotic theory -- On the sexual production of western subjectivity -- Space and congestion : Rem Kool Hass and S, M, L, XL -- Future city -- Marc Angenot and the literary history of a year -- On "cultural studies" -- The end of temporality.

1844672778 9781844672776 184467276X 9781844672769

2009291081


Criticism--History--20th century
Ideology--History--20th century.
Philosophy, Modern--20th century

PN94 / .J36 2008

801.95