Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson Born (1934-04-14) April 14, 1934 (age 80) Cleveland, Ohio, US Era 20th- / 21st-century philosophy Region Western Philosophy School Western Marxism Main interests Postmodernism · Modernism · science fiction · Utopia · history · narrative · Cultural studies · dialectics · structuralism Notable ideas cognitive mapping · national allegory · political unconscious Influences Karl Marx · Vladimir Lenin · Hegel · Jean-Paul Sartre · Theodor Adorno · György Lukács · Walter Benjamin · Erich Auerbach · Raymond Williams · Ernst Bloch · Louis Althusser · Frankfurt School Influenced Slavoj Žižek · Perry Anderson · Gopal Balakrishnan Fredric Jameson (born 14 April 1934) is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends. He once described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of organized capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Political Unconscious, and Marxism and Form. Jameson is currently William A. Lane Professor in The Program in Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. In 2012, the Modern Language Association gave Jameson its sixth Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement.