Years of Theory

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. Over the last several decades, he has developed an influential and richly nuanced understanding of the relationship between culture and political economy. He is a recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize and the Modern Language Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of many books, including The Political Unconscious, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, and Valences of the Dialectic.

• Editor's PrefaceIntroduction: The Seminar as a Collective Book1 Les Cinquante Glorieuses2 The Uses of the Verb to Be{ Sartre}3 Reification or Otherness{ Sartre}4 After Sartre{ Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Fanon}5 After the Liberation{ Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Fanon}6 Glory to the Binary Opposition!{ Saussure, Levi-Strauss}7 Saussure in Brazil{ Levi-Strauss}8 Victory of the Paradigmatic{ Levi-Strauss, Barthes}9 Utopia: But Where Does Power Come From?{ Baudrillard, Clastres}10 Enter Lacan{ Lacan}11 Genealogy of the Look{ Lacan}12 Class Struggle in Theory{ Althusser}13 The Lonely Hour of the Last Instance{ Althusser}14 How to Avoid Meaning{ Derrida}15 Linguistic Politics of the Third Way{ Derrida}16 Feminism as Transgression{ Beauvoir, Wittig, Irigaray}17 Mothers and Moving Images{ Kristeva, Comolli, Baudry}18 "Moi, Michel Foucault..."{ Foucault}19 The Prison-House of Subjectification{ Foucault}20 Nominalism of the Photograph{ Barthes}21 Philosophy's Postmodern Theater{ Deleuze}22 Joyousness of Gilles Deleuze{ Deleuze}23 Return of le Politique{ Rancière, Balibar, Nancy}24 Simulating the End of History{ Debord, Baudrillard}Envoi: Theory after Demarxification{ Latour, Meillassoux, Stiegler, Laruelle}Index

An intellectually rigorous overview of post-World War II French thought ... Tracing webs of influence, and rebellion, among them, Jameson conveys the intellectual vitality of a vastly changing world.