Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson
	Jameson in 2004
Born	Fredric Ruff Jameson; April 14, 1934; Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Died	September 22, 2024 (aged 90); Killingworth, Connecticut, U.S.
Spouse	Susan Willis
Children	7
Education
Education	Haverford College (BA); Yale University (PhD)
Thesis	The Origins of Sartre's Style (1959)
Doctoral advisor	Erich Auerbach
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Western Marxism; Marxist hermeneutics;
Institutions	Harvard University (1959–67); UC San Diego (1967–76); Yale University (1976–83); UC Santa Cruz (1983–85); Duke University (1985–2024);
Doctoral students	Kim Stanley Robinson; Sara Danius
Notable students	John Beverley
Main interests	Marxist cultural analysis, utopia; Marxist literary criticism, history; postmodernism; structuralism; cultural studies; science fiction; modernism; narrative; dialectics;
Notable ideas	Alternate modernity; Cognitive mapping; National allegory; Political unconscious; Vanishing mediator;

Fredric Ruff Jameson (April 14, 1934 – September 22, 2024) was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist.^[6] He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)^[7] and The Political Unconscious (1981).

Jameson was the Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Romance Studies (French), and Director of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University.^[8] In 2012, the Modern Language Association gave Jameson its sixth Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement.^[9]

^ Cite error: The named reference ESF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Orthofer, M.A. (December 22, 2014), "Swedish Academy news", The Literary Saloon, archived from the original on December 22, 2014
^ Beverley, John (1980), Aspects of Góngora's "Soledades", Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. xiii, ISBN 978-90-272-1711-0
^ ^a ^b Beverley, John (2008), "La política de la teoría: Un itinerario personal", in Vidal, Hernán (ed.), Treinta años de estudios literarios/culturales latinoamericanistas en Estados Unidos. Memorias, testimonios, reflexiones críticas, Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, pp. 114–115, ISBN 978-1-930744-32-5. Reprinted in his Políticas de la teoría. Ensayos sobre subalternidad y hegemonía, ed. Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott, Caracas: Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies, 2011 (manuscript copy) and Sobre los límites del campo. Ensayos de crítica literaria latinoamericanista, Raleigh, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
^ Mohanty 1997, pp. 93–115.
^ Sotiris, Panagiotis (September 22, 2024). "Fredric R. Jameson (1934–2024)". Historical Materialism.
^ Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1991. p. 438. ISBN 978-81-903403-2-8. OCLC 948832273.
^ "Fredric Jameson". Duke University – Scholars@Duke. Retrieved June 2, 2023.
^ "Fredric Jameson to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award". Today.duke.edu. December 4, 2011. Retrieved October 2, 2017.

[ESF-1] Cite error: The named reference ESF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[2] Orthofer, M.A. (December 22, 2014), "Swedish Academy news", The Literary Saloon, archived from the original on December 22, 2014

[3] Beverley, John (1980), Aspects of Góngora's "Soledades", Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. xiii, ISBN 978-90-272-1711-0

[JB-4] Beverley, John (2008), "La política de la teoría: Un itinerario personal", in Vidal, Hernán (ed.), Treinta años de estudios literarios/culturales latinoamericanistas en Estados Unidos. Memorias, testimonios, reflexiones críticas, Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, pp. 114–115, ISBN 978-1-930744-32-5. Reprinted in his Políticas de la teoría. Ensayos sobre subalternidad y hegemonía, ed. Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott, Caracas: Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies, 2011 (manuscript copy) and Sobre los límites del campo. Ensayos de crítica literaria latinoamericanista, Raleigh, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

[FOOTNOTEMohanty199793–115-5] Mohanty 1997, pp. 93–115.

[auto-6] Sotiris, Panagiotis (September 22, 2024). "Fredric R. Jameson (1934–2024)". Historical Materialism.

[Jameson_Postmodernism_1991-7] Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1991. p. 438. ISBN 978-81-903403-2-8. OCLC 948832273.

[8] "Fredric Jameson". Duke University – Scholars@Duke. Retrieved June 2, 2023.

[auto1-9] "Fredric Jameson to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award". Today.duke.edu. December 4, 2011. Retrieved October 2, 2017.

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