Marxism and Form

20Th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature

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ID19933467
AuthorsFredric Jameson (corresponding author), Teodor W Adorno, Walter Benjamin (0000-0003-0282-8605), Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean‐paul Sartre
Year1974
Pages432
Publication date1974-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMarxism and Form (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781400884506
OpenAlexW2586844372
Open LibraryOL29331297M
ISBN9781400884506
LanguageEN
Citations received40
References cited1

For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Through penetrating readings of each theorist, Jameson developed a critical mode of engagement that has had tremendous in.uence. He provided a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making--in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form. Jameson's presentation of the critical thought of this Hegelian Marxism provided a stark alternative to the Anglo-American tradition of empiricism and humanism. It would later provide a compelling alternative to poststructuralism and deconstruction as they became dominant methodologies in aesthetic criticism. One year after Marxism and Form, Princeton published Jameson's The Prison-House of Language (1972), which provided a thorough historical and philosophical description of formalism and structuralism. Both books remain central to Jameson's main intellectual legacy: describing and extending a tradition of Western Marxism in cultural theory and literary interpretation

Dialectic · Epistemology · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Communism and literature · Criticism · Dialectical materialism

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