{"product_id":"marxism-and-form-twentieth-century-dialectical-theories-of","title":"Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of","description":"\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 069101311X\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jameson, Fredric\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e new\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eFor more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Through penetrating readings of each theorist, Jameson developed a critical mode of engagement that has had tremendous in.uence. He provided a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making--in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form.Jameson's presentation of the critical thought of this Hegelian Marxism provided a stark alternative to the Anglo-American tradition of empiricism and humanism. It would later provide a compelling alternative to poststructuralism and deconstruction as they became dominant methodologies in aesthetic criticism.One year after Marxism and Form, Princeton published Jameson's The Prison-House of Language (1972), which provided a thorough historical and philosophical description of formalism and structuralism. Both books remain central to Jameson's main intellectual legacy: describing and extending a tradition of Western Marxism in cultural theory and literary interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eUsed Book in Good Condition\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n        ","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49673805365488,"sku":"NEW069101311X","price":31.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/marxism-and-form-twentieth-century-dialectical-theories-of","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}