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Title: Late Marxism
Condition: New
EAN: 9781844675753
ISBN: 9781844675753
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 17/01/2007
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 132mm
Author: Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Subtitle: Adorno, Or, the Persistence of the Dialectic
ISBN-10: 1844675750
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Width: 23mm
Item Weight: 320g
Genre: Law & Politics
Book Series: Radical Thinkers Set 02
Release Year: 2007
Description: In the name of an assault on "totalization" and "identity," a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism's dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernism and "post-politics." A case in point is recent interpretation of one of the greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Theodor Adorno. In this powerful book, Fredric Jameson proposes a radically different reading of Adorno's work, especially of his major works on philosophy and aesthetics: Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory.
Jameson argues persuasively that Adorno's contribution to the development of Marxism remains unique and indispensable. He shows how Adorno's work on aesthetics performs deconstructive operations yet is in sharp distinction to the now canonical deconstructive genre of writing. He explores the complexity of Adorno's very timely affirmation of philosophy - of its possibility after the "end" of grand theory. Above all, he illuminates the subtlety and richness of Adorno's continuing emphasis on late capitalism as a totality within the very forms of our culture. In its lucidity, Late Marxism echoes the writing of its subject, to whose critical, utopian intelligence Jameson remains faithful.

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