Valences of the dialectic / Fredric Jameson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jameson, Fredric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectic--Philosophy.

Dialectic.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

625 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2009.

Summary:

One of the most accomplished literary and cultural critics in the world, Fredric Jameson, returns to the philosophy of the dialectic in a study of the concept and those who have developed it.

Contents:

The three names of The dialectic. The three names of The dialectic

Hegel without Aufhebung. Hegel and reification ; Hegel's contemporary critics

Commentaries. Marx's purloined letter ; Deleuze and dualism ; History and class consciousness as an unfinished project ; Sartre's Critique, volume I : an introduction ; Sartre's Critique, volume II : an introduction

Entries. Commodification ; Cultural revolution ; Persistencies of the dialectic : three sites ; Lenin as political thinker ; Rousseau and contradiction ; Ideological analysis : a handbook

Politics. Actually existing Marxism ; Utopia as replication ; Globalization as a philosophical issue ; Globalization as political strategy

The valences of history. The valences of history ; Making time appear ; Making history appear.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jameson, Fredric. Valences of the dialectic.

ISBN:

9781859848777

185984877X

OCLC:

461244976

Publisher Number:

99938009360

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