Ideologies Of Theory

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Ideologies of Theory, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson’s long career as a critic. They chart a body of work suspended by the twin poles of literary scholarship and political history, occupying a space vibrant with the tension between critical exegesis and the Marxist intellectual tradition. Jameson’s work pushes out the boundaries of the text, making evident the interaction between literature and the disciplines of psychoanalysis, philosophy and cultural theory, all of which are shown to be inseparable from their ideological milieu. The essays in this volume track a shift from ideological analysis to the phenomenology of everyday life, and constitute a rigorous and passionate argument for the necessity of theory as the simultaneous critique of empiricism and idealist philosophy. Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Epigraph 1 | Situations of Theory 1 | Metacommentary Notes 2 | The Ideology of the Text I II III IV Notes 3 | Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan I II III IV Notes 4 | Criticism in History I II III IV V VI Notes 5 | Symbolic Inference; or, Kenneth Burke and Ideological Analysis Notes 6 | Figural Relativism; or, The Poetics of Historiography Notes 7 | Modernism and Its Repressed; or, Robbe-Grillet as Anti-Colonialist Notes 8 | Morality Versus Ethical Substance; or, Aristotelian Marxism in Alasdair MacIntyre Notes 9 | On Negt and Kluge Notes 10 | Benjamin's Readings Notes 11 | Foreword to Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition Notes 12 | Foreword to Jacques Attali's Noise: The Political Economy of Music Notes 13 | Mar Angenot and the Literary History of a Year Notes 14 | On "Cultural Studies" It's Not My Field! Social Groups: Popular Front or United Nations? Cultural Studies as a Substitute for Marxism Articulation: A Truck Driver's Manual Culture and Group Libido Free-Floating Intellectuals Populism as Doxa The Geopolitical Imperative Conclusions and Utopia Notes 15 | The End of Temporality Notes Index Acknowledgements Part 1 | Situations of Theory Part II | Syntax of History