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Aesthetics and Politics by Fredric Jameson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.42No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics... -
The Benjamin Files Fredric Jameson 9781839765575
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an... -
Lacan by Professor Fredric Jameson 9781784783983
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The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms by Fredric Jameson
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.83High 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... -
The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit by Fredric Jameson
Booksplease Price: $19.15In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text Phenomenology of Spirit.In contrast to those who see the Phenomenology... -
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson 9781784782184
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Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson 9780860915379
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.63In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Frederic Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a... -
Late Marxism: Adorno: Or, the Persistence of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson 9781844675753
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A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present by Fredric Jameson 9781781680223
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The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present Fredric Jameson 9781804295892
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.38Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible... -
Inventions of a Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization by Fredric Jameson 9781804292402
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.38A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naive reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best... -
Las Semillas del Tiempo by Professor Fredric Jameson (Duke University) 9788481643725
Booksplease Price: $20.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788481643725Author Professor Fredric JamesonFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 by Fredric Jameson 9781844673490
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Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai 9780674088122
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $24.05The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often... -
In the Flow by Boris Groys
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.09In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. In an age of secularism and materialism, artworks would be understood as merely... -
Class War: A Literary History by Mark Steven
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.22A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the... -
Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network by Caroline Levine 9780691173436
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.77Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today--how to connect form to political, social, and historical context... -
The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System by Fredric R. Jameson
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.01"The Geopolitical Aesthetic is a dazzling . . . distillation and application of the theoretical system he first presented in The Political Unconscious (1981)." -The San Francisco Bay GuardianTaking... -
The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising Jasper Bernes 9781788737531
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51The Future of Revolution is a forceful critique of authoritarian perspectives on how revolution unfolds. Developing instead an alternative account of "revolutionary motives," it forcefully argues... -
The Cultural Logic of Contemporary Capitalism by Nico Baumbach 9780822368472
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93In 1984 Fredric Jameson wrote that "everything in our social life-from economic value and state power to practices and to the very structure of the psyche itself-can be said to have become 'cultural'... -
What is Subjectivity? by Jean-Paul Sartre 9781784781378
Booksplease Price: $20.41In 1961 the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. In attendance were some of Italy's leading Marxist thinkers such as Enzo Paci,... -
Critique of Dialectical Reason: v. 2 by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $36.07Does history produce discernible meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason. Drafted in 1958... -
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Outside Literature by Tony Bennett 9780415010948 [USED COPY]
RRP: $62.97Booksplease Price: $6.94Literature is often defined as a distinct category of writing in terms of particular formal or aesthetic attributes. Tony Bennett suggests that literature be re-defined as an institutionally defined... -
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Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History by Herb Wyile 9780773523159 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.00Booksplease Price: $20.52Herb Wyile provides a comparative analysis of the historical concerns and textual strategies of twenty novels published since the appearance of Rudy Wiebe's groundbreaking The Temptations of Big Bear... -
Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece by Peter W. Rose 9781501742576
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.09In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory... -
Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory by Ellen Rooney
Booksplease Price: $19.98Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies... -
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Mysterious Actions: New American Drama by Jody McAuliffe 9780822365020 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $2.01With this special issue, South Atlantic Quarterly presents five never-before-published plays by some of the brightest stars in contemporary American theater. Mysterious Actions presents works that... -
Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories, Practices by E. Ann Kaplan 9780860919254
Booksplease Price: $37.53On the current battlefield of cultural criticism and production, no term has been more vigorously contested than 'postmodernism'. Defying clear definition, yet persisting as an indispensable... -
A Dictionary of Critical Theory by Ian Buchanan
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.15Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory,... -
The philosophy of Marx by Etienne Balibar 9781784786038
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.03Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context-including the concepts of... -
Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism by Scott Durham 9780804730716 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $12.86Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in... -
The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America by Georg M. Gugelberger 9780822318514 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $12.60Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonized, and the oppressed, testimonio has in the last two decades emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America's... -
For a Ruthless Critique of All that Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism Robert T. Tally Jr. 9781789048544
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.98For a Ruthless Critique of All that Exists takes as its point of departure two profound and interrelated phenomena. The first is the pervasive sense of what Mark Fisher had called "capitalist... -
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Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan by Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang 9780822313281 [USED COPY]
RRP: $136.68Booksplease Price: $23.54The first comprehensive English-language study of literary trends in the fiction of Taiwan over the last forty years, this pioneering work explores a rich tradition of literary Modernism in its... -
Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture by Mark Dery 9780822315315 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $1.38"Flame Wars," the verbal firefights that take place between disembodied combatants on electronic bulletin boards, remind us that our interaction with the world is increasingly mediated by computers... -
Diary of an Escape Antonio Negri (University of Padua) 9780745644264
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller. Much less well... -
Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary by Rob Wilson 9780822317029 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.00Booksplease Price: $1.47This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization-the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in... -
Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction by Bruce Robbins 9781503633209
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.01An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism. What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question... -
The End of Modern Literature: On Permanent Revolution by Kojin Karatani 9781836743903
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08What comes after the death of literature? Kojin Karatani, winner of the 2022 Berggruen Prize, examines the corpse, investigates the cause of death, and offers glimpses of an afterlife from various... -
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Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China: Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique by Kang Liu 9780822314035 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $19.46This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In...