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vol. 4

Postmodernism / Jameson / Critique

Douglas Kellner, editor

Library of Congress Catalog Number PN96.C6P67

416 pages

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Publication date May 1, 1989

Library binding $40.95 ISBN 0-944624-06-5 or ISBN-13 9780944624067

Paperback $18.95 ISBN 0-944624-07-3 or ISBN-13 9780944624074

New theories about the radical break with the traditions of modernism in literature, architecture, cinema, mass media, and consumer culture began emerging in the late 70s from writers as diverse as Baudrillard, Lyotard, Kroker, Jencks, and importantly Fredric Jameson who leads the effort to bring Marxist cultural critique forward into the postmodernism debate. In this volume, Kellner  brings together fourteen of the best writers on the postmodern scene; here they have been assigned the task of assessing the relations of current theoretical movements in Marxism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism. The occasion for these essays and their unifying focus is the work of Fredric Jameson.

Although first published in 1989, this volume remains one of the best overall texts on the postmodern moment in our recent cultural history.

“Fredric Jameson, one of the most influential and controversial cultural critics today, is a metonym for the conjunctures in this book. The list of contributors is diversified. Kellner’s introduction gives us the fullest historical account of the Jameson phenomenon to date. Jameson’s ‘Afterword’ is a moving document. . . . A monumental text.”

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University.

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