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1934-. American literary critic and [[Karl Marx|Marxist]] thinker. | 1934-2024. American literary critic and [[Karl Marx|Marxist]] thinker. | ||
Notable book: ''Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'' (1991), in which he analyses postmodernism as a cultural manifestation of the [[Late capitalism|late capitalist]] mode of production. Due to the close connection between the two phenomena, Jameson argues that "every position on postmodernism in culture [...] is also at one and the same time, and necessarily, an implicitly or explicitly political stance on the nature of multinational capitalism today" (ch. 1). | Notable book: ''Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'' (1991), in which he analyses postmodernism as a cultural manifestation of the [[Late capitalism|late capitalist]] mode of production. Due to the close connection between the two phenomena, Jameson argues that "every position on postmodernism in culture [...] is also at one and the same time, and necessarily, an implicitly or explicitly political stance on the nature of multinational capitalism today" (ch. 1). | ||
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1934-2024. American literary critic and Marxist thinker.
Notable book: Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), in which he analyses postmodernism as a cultural manifestation of the late capitalist mode of production. Due to the close connection between the two phenomena, Jameson argues that "every position on postmodernism in culture [...] is also at one and the same time, and necessarily, an implicitly or explicitly political stance on the nature of multinational capitalism today" (ch. 1).