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Fredric Ruff Jameson (April 14, 1934 – September 22, 2024) was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. [6] He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism .
Sep 23, 2024 · Fredric Ruff Jameson was born on April 14, 1934, in Cleveland. His father, Frank Jameson, was a doctor, and his mother, Bernice (Ruff) Jameson, oversaw the home.
1 day ago · Published: September 30, 2024 2:39am EDT. There are writers and critics, theorists and gurus. And then there is Fredric Jameson. Or there was. Because on September 22, at the age of 90, undimmed ...
21 hours ago · Then I read Fredric Jameson. Best known for his seminal 1991 book Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism — expanded from a 1984 essay of the same name — the critic and political theorist was renowned for his analysis of art and literature through a historical lens, situating cultural expression within a macro-economic ...
Sep 23, 2024 · Fredric Jameson, in a 1988 Duke classroom. Toril Moi, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Literature, said Jameson’s death “is an irreparable loss not just to Duke, but to the intellectual world. His work has inspired thousands.”. “In the 1980s, he created the Literature Program at Duke in his image: a broad, welcoming home to ...
Sep 22, 2024 · Historical Materialism is deeply grieved by the passing of the Marxist intellectual giant, philosopher and cultural critic Fredric Jameson at the age of 90. Jameson’s work fundamentally reshaped our understanding of culture, politics and aesthetics, leaving behind an enduring legacy that has inspired generations of thinkers, activists and ...
For Fredric Jameson, Marxist Criticism Was a Labor of Love. The literary critic, who died on Sunday at age 90, believed that reading was the path to revolution. Fredric Jameson in 1988. His considerations of Balzac and Philip K. Dick, of Sartre and cyberpunk, of Proust and pop art are animated by enthusiasm and skepticism, by an engagement no ...
Sep 24, 2024 · Jameson was conferred the Holberg Prize in a formal ceremony on 26 November 2008 in Bergen. At the Holberg Symposium the previous day, he gave his Holberg Lecture on the theme “Foreign Relations in World Literature”. The Holberg Committee’s recommendation for awarding Fredric Jameson the 2008 Holberg Prize is reproduced here in extenso:
詹明信（英語： Fredric Jameson ；1934年4月14日—2024年9月22日），美國左翼批評家。 曾任 杜克大学 比较文学教授与批判理论中心主任。 擅長以 馬克思理論 作文化評論，及研究 資本主義 下的 後現代主義 文化發展。
We were saddened to hear the news of Fredric Jameson’s passing on September 22, 2024. Jameson was truly a towering intellect of his time and yet he was also a very kind and generous human being. We will miss him. We published his classic The Political Unconscious back in 1981, and it has been a perennial bestseller ever since. His book has ...
