Overview
In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Whereas other writers have interpreted the Phenomenology as a rigidly closed system, Jameson discovers it to be a more fluid, open-ended work. Hegel's mind is revealed to be a less systematic mechanism than normally thought, one whose ideas never solidify into pure abstractions. The conclusion of the Phenomenology, on the aftermath of the French Revolution, is examined as a provisional stalemate between the political and the social-a situation from which Jameson draws important lessons for our own age.
Full Product Details
Author: Fredric Jameson
Publisher: Verso Books
Imprint: Verso Books
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.299kg
ISBN: 9781844676163
ISBN 10: 1844676161
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 02 July 2010
Audience:
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Replaced By: 9781844677047
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction. Terry Eagleton Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ...It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him. Colin MacCabe Praise for Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism One of the most persuasive cognitive maps of the evolution of culture in the West in the period from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. J. M. Coetzee
[The Hegel Variations] yields a series of audacious reading of a non-teleological Hegel, throwing a distinctive light on such themes as master-slave dialectic, linguistic subjectivity, expressive production ( the animal kingdom of spirit ), normative division in the Antigone (inaugurating chapter 6, Spirit ), and the French Revolution. * Choice * Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction. -- Terry Eagleton Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him. -- Colin MacCabe
"[The Hegel Variations] yields a series of audacious reading of a ""non-teleological"" Hegel, throwing a distinctive light on such themes as master-slave dialectic, linguistic subjectivity, expressive production (""the animal kingdom of spirit""), normative division in the Antigone (inaugurating chapter 6, ""Spirit""), and the French Revolution. * Choice * Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction. -- Terry Eagleton Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him. -- Colin MacCabe"
Author Information
Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University. He is the author of many books, including: The Cultural Turn; A Singular Modernity; The Modernist Papers; Brecht and Method; Ideologies of Theory; Valences of the Dialectic; and Representing Capital.
