Fredric Jameson

DOUGLAS KELLNER is George Kellner Chair in the Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history and culture. His recent publications include: Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and the Theft of an Election; The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millenium (co-authored with Steven Best); Media Spectacle and Septermber 11; Terror, War and the Bush Presidency. - SEAN HOMER is Senior Lecturer in Media Studes, City College, Thessaloniki, Greece. He is author of Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism and has published articles on psychoanalysis and critical theory in Radical Philosophy, New Formations, The Letter, PS and Free Associations. -

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Sartrean Origins; S.Homer The American Lukács? Fredric Jameson and Dialectical Thought; C.Pawling Fredric Jameson on 'Third-World Literature': A Qualified Defence; N.Lazarus Postmodernism is the Theory, Gentrification is the Practice: Jameson, Haraldsson, Architecture and Vancouver; C.Burnham Stranded Economies; C.A.Gregory The Political Unconscious of Globalization: Notes from the Periphery; M.E.Cevasco Jameson as a Theorist of Revolutionary Philately; S.Zizek Talking Film with Fredric Jameson; M.Chanan Postmodern Negative Dialectics; J.O'Kane Modernity as Cultural Politics: Jameson in China; X.Zhang Jameson, Brecht, Lenin and Spectral Possibilities; E.Leslie Dekalog as Decameron ; F.Jameson Bibliography Index