On Levels and Categories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12673151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fredric Jameson (Duke University, corresponding author), Fredric R Jameson (Knut Schmidt Nielsen Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Program in Literature, Duke University Durham, North Carolina USA) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 221-233 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Materialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-4466 • E-ISSN: 1569-206X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1569206x-12342034 |
| OpenAlex | W3146419287 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article is a response by the author to the contributions to the Historical Materialism symposium on Allegory and Ideology . The reply is framed in terms of the different theoretical strategies through which the articulation of ‘Marx’ and ‘Freud’ has been carried out, namely the precarious syntheses of Freudo-Marxism, the homological method pioneered by Lucien Goldmann, and the theory of allegorical levels and transcoding explored in Allegory and Ideology . It critically engages with the openings and challenges posed by the various contributions to the symposium, focusing in particular on matters of periodisation, and concluding with a reflection on how a theory of allegorical levels can be complemented by a materialist understanding of the ‘category’
Aesthetics · Allegory · Art · Articulation (sociology · Epistemology · Ideology · Literature · Materialism · Political science · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Historical and Scientific Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |