Name: Giro Cultural, el (in Spanish)
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Author: Fredric Jameson
ISBN: 9789875000353

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Fredric Jameson

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Manantial

Synopsis "Giro Cultural, el (in Spanish)"

Esta compilación de escritos de Jameson brinda una excelente aproximación al pensamiento de este intelectual clave de fin de siglo, recogiendo textos fundamentales y nuevos aportes que abarcan el amplio espectro de temas que aborda el autor. Se incluyen tres textos fundacionales de los ochenta, un texto de 1991 y cuatro ensayos que se publican por primera vez. Jameson nos ilumina con reflexiones sobre diversas cuestiones que tocan a la arquitectura, la economía, el cine, el arte, la filosofía y la literatura.(Este libro ofrece) ¨La más concisa y completa compilación del desarrollo del pensamiento de Jameson sobre el posmodernismo disponible hasta el momento, desde sus producciones más tempranas hasta las últimas consideraciones¨.Del prólogo de Perry Anderson

Fredric Jameson

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Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) was an influential American literary critic and Marxist theorist, known for his analysis of contemporary culture and its relationship with late capitalism. He earned his PhD from Yale with a thesis on Sartre and taught at universities such as Harvard, Yale, and Duke. His methodological approach combined Marxism, structuralism, and psychoanalysis, addressing issues like postmodernism and cultural production in the globalized era. In 2008, he received the prestigious Holberg Prize for his outstanding contribution to the study of the relationships between social formations and cultural forms.

Among his most notable works are Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), Theories of Postmodernity (1996), The Seeds of Time (2000), A Singular Modernity (2002), Archaeologies of the Future (2009), and The Realism and the Providential Novel (2006). The latter, published by the Circle of Fine Arts, examines narrative structures in Western literature, from Heliodorus to George Eliot, and suggests that happy endings are a literary rather than existential category. His work falls within the genre of critical essay and literary theory, and has left an indelible mark on contemporary cultural and literary studies.

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