Jameson F. The ideologies of theory

New York: Verso. — 2009. — 691 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-84467-277-6 (pbk); ISBN13: 978-1-84467-276-9 (hbk)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.Situations of theoryMetacommentary
The Ideology of the Text
Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan
Criticism in History
Symbolic Inference; or, Kenneth Burke and Ideological Analysis
Figural Relativism; or. The Poetics of Historiography
Modernism and Its Repressed; or, Robbe-Grillet as Anti-Colonialist
Morality Versus Ethical Substance; or, Aristotelian Marxism in Alasdair Maclntyre
On Negt and Kluge
Benjamin's Readings
Foreword to Jean-Francois Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition
Foreword to Jacques Attali's Noise: The Political Economy of Music
The Theoretical Hesitation: Benjamin's Sociological Predecessor
How Not to Historicize TheorySyntax of historyThe Vanishing Mediator; ort Max Weber as Storyteller
Architecture and the Critique of Ideology
Pleasure: A Political Issue
Of Islands and Trenches: Neutralization and the Production of Utopian Discourse
Beyond the Cave: Demystifying the Ideology of Modernism
Reflections on the Brecht-Lukacs Debate
Marxism and Historicism
Periodizing the 60s
Foreword to A. J. Greimas' On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory
On the Sexual Production of Western Subjectivity
Space and Congestion: Rem Kool Hass and S, M, L, XL
Future City
Marc Angenot and the Literary History of a Year
On "Cultural Studies"
The End of TemporalityAcknowledgements