The Benjamin Files by Fredric Jameson (English) Hardcover Book

Description: The Benjamin Files by Fredric Jameson Jamesons first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamins work FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamins major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as a writer. What resulted was a coexistence or variety of language fields and thematic codes which overlapped and often seemed to contradict each other: a view which will allow us to clarify the much-debated tension in his works between the mystical or theological side of Benjamin and his political or historical inclination. The three-way tug of war over his heritage between adherents of his friends Scholem, Adorno and Brecht, can also be better grasped from this position, which gives the Brechtian standpoint more due than most influential academic studies. Benjamins corpus is an anticipation of contemporary theory in the priority it gives language and representation over philosophical or conceptual unity; and its political motivations are clarified by attention to the omnipresence of History throughout his writing, from the shortest articles to the most ambitious projects. His explicit program – "to transfer the crisis into the heart of language" or, in other words, to detect class struggle at work in the most minute literary phenomena – requires the reader to translate the linguistic or representational literary issues that concerned him back into the omnipresent but often only implicitly political ones. But the latter are those of another era, to which we must gain access, to use one of Benjamins favorite expressions. Author Biography Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western cultures relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital. Review In The Benjamin Files, the high Jamesonian style is everywhere on display, with the slight difference that the prose in this book seems at once more forthright and more playful than in many of the older works. -- Ian Balfour * Los Angeles Review of Books *Jameson skilfully situates Benjamin within his immediate and wider contexts, and he is an attentive close reader, drawing out the tight, mutual links between form and content in Benjamins thought. -- Carolin Duttlinger * Times Literary Supplement *Marvelous -- David Carrier * Hyperallergic *[Jameson] is probably the finest cultural critic in the world ... There seems to be almost nothing he hasnt read, apart perhaps from the odd manual on pig-farming, and the wealth of cultural knowledge packed into this latest offering is astonishing. -- Terry Eagleton * London Review of Books *In making his case, Jameson places Benjamin squarely within the Marxist tradition, while simultaneously retaining all that is unique and complex about his thinking. -- Paul Stasi * Socialism & Democracy * Promotional Jamesons first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamins work Review Quote "Probably the finest cultural critic in the world ... one of the great stylists among literary theorists, whose rolling waves of sentences unfurl in such leisurely fashion that the reader must take deep breaths, careful not to be dragged under before the next full stop arrives." --Terry Eagleton, LRB "Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him." --Colin MacCabe "In The Benjamin Files , the high Jamesonian style is everywhere on display, with the slight difference that the prose in this book seems at once more forthright and more playful than in many of the older works." --Ian Balfour, Los Angeles Review of Books "Jameson skilfully situates Benjamin within his immediate and wider contexts, and he is an attentive close reader, drawing out the tight, mutual links between form and content in Benjamins thought." -- Carolin Duttlinger, Times Literary Supplement "Marvelous." -- David Carrier, Hyperallergic "[Jameson] is probably the finest cultural critic in the world ... There seems to be almost nothing he hasnt read, apart perhaps from the odd manual on pig-farming, and the wealth of cultural knowledge packed into this latest offering is astonishing." --Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books Promotional "Headline" Jamesons first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamins work Details ISBN1784783986 Author Fredric Jameson Short Title LACAN Language English ISBN-10 1784783986 ISBN-13 9781784783983 Media Book Format Hardcover Residence NC, US Affiliation Duke University DEWEY 193 UK Release Date 2020-11-03 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2020-11-03 Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-11-03 Pages 272 Publisher Verso Books Imprint Verso Books Audience General AU Release Date 2021-02-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131332110;

Price: 66.69 AUD

Location: Melbourne

End Time: 2025-01-09T03:51:47.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 AUD