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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 Jameson, a cultural theorist and literary critic who influenced generations of scholars and helped raise the international profile of Duke University's literature program, died Sunday. He was 90.
Sep 23, 2024 · Fredric Jameson, who held sway as one of the world’s leading literary theorists for over 40 years, bringing his brand of rigorous, incisive Marxist criticism to topics as broad as German opera,...
Sep 26, 2024 · We have lost a formidable Marxist thinker, writes Alex Callinicos. In Fredric Jameson, who died on Sunday at the age of 90, we have lost probably the most creative Marxist thinker of our...
Mar 25, 2020 · Fredric Jameson (b. 14 April 1934) is North America’s leading Marxist cultural theorist and critic. He is the Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Romance Studies (French) and Director of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University, where he has worked since 1985. Jameson has been the recipient of ...
Oct 15, 2024 · Literary critic, critical theorist, philosopher, Marxist: Fredric Jameson died last month at the age of ninety. In his long career, he wrote more than thirty books and many more articles on literature, film, television, opera, and architecture, situating culture—popular and otherwise—within the “logic of late capitalism” (the subtitle of his perhaps most well-known book, Postmodernism ...
Sep 24, 2024 · Famous for his dictum “Always historicize!” Jameson understands the cultural artifact within the context of a given social and historical formation, while reorienting the tradition of Western Marxist cultural theory.
