Presents a fresh theory of history that the author believed was necessary for postwar Marxism. This title concerns with the structure of class struggle and the fate of the mass movements of popular revolt, from the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century to the Russian and Chinese revolutions in the twentieth.

This ground-breaking and influential study explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. It takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.

Provides an introduction to one of the great Marxist thinkers of the 20th century.

A comprehensive analysis of the philosophy of the dialectic by one of the doyens of cultural criticism. It charts a movement toward the innovation of a 'spatial' dialectic, culminating in a meditation on globalization, through a study of Paul Ricoeur.

The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists - Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats - who were his sometime friends and collaborators. This book proposes a framework in which Lewis' explosive language practice can be grasped as a symbolic and political act.

Does History produce discernable meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason. Drafted in 1958 and published in France in 1985, this magisterial work first appeared in English in 1991 and now reappears with a major new introduction by Frederic Jameson. Volume Two's theoretical framework is a ...

Part of Radical Thinkers series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. It offers an introduction to the key writings on post modernism.

A collection of theoretical essays which were composed under a particular set of constraints - the need to explain the Marxist intellectual tradition within the bounds of literary criticism - thereby enlarging the conception of the literary text.

Offers the author's insight into modernist literature and art. Serving as a companion to the classic, A Singular Modernity , this title looks at the innovative literary experiments of Joyce and Proust, the poetry of Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein and the writing of Kafka, Mann and Mallarme.

Opens as the protagonist, Carlos Perez Cifredo, sits down to fill out a questionnaire for readmission to the Cuban Communist Party. This title closes with Carlos standing before a panel of Party members charged with assessing his merit as an 'exemplary worker'. The chapters between relate Carlos' experiences of the pre- and post-revolutionary era.

Regarded by many as one of the leading works of this century, this novel documents the resistance to fascism in Europe (and within Germany) during World War II.

A collection of theoretical essays which were composed under a particular set of constraints - the need to explain the Marxist intellectual tradition within the bounds of literary criticism - thereby enlarging the conception of the literary text.

The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists - Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats - who were his sometime friends and collaborators. This book proposes a framework in which Lewis' explosive language practice can be grasped as a symbolic and political act.

In this work, Jameson dissects the intricate connections between Brecht's drama and politics, demonstrating the way these combined to shape a powerful influence on a profoundly troubled epoch.

Jameson's study of the cultural, political and social implications of postmodernism.

In this new interpretation of 'modernity', its relationship to capital and to a social ideal, Jameson explores the concepts in a fresh and illuminating manner, helping to clarify our present political and artistic situations.

Fredric Jameson is one of the influential literary and cultural critics writing. His ideas about the intersections of politics and culture have reshaped the critical landscape across the humanities and social sciences. This book discusses his intellectual and political preoccupations, his commitment to Marxism and the culture it has engendered.

Investigates the development of the Utopian form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of Utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. This book also explores the relationship between utopia and science fiction through the representations of otherness and a study of the works of Philip Dick, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson and others.

Explores the concept of globalization in a variety of cultural settings, and its effect on world-wide cultural transformation of nation, place, race, class, ethnos and gender.