Fredric Jameson was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly postmodernity and its relationship to capitalism. His best-known books include Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, published in 1991, and The Political Unconscious, published in 1981, both of which shaped later debates over the relationship between culture and economic structure. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Fredric Ruff Jameson (April 14, 1934, September 22, 2024) was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist.
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He returned to America the following year to study at Yale University under Erich Auerbach in pursuit of a PhD, which was awarded in 1959 for a dissertation on The Origins of Sartre's Style. === Career summary === From 1959 to 1967 he taught French and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
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In Jameson's view, postmodernity's merging of all discourse into an undifferentiated whole was the result of the colonization of the cultural sphere-which had retained at least partial autonomy during the prior modernist era-by a newly organized corporate capitalism.
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