Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

"Frederic Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writing sweep magisterially form sophocles to science fiction. . . . postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster...a timely riposte to fashionable leftist pessism as much as it is an intellectual feast." - Terry Eagleton, The Irish Times

"For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political ad social implications of postmodernism. . . Jameson's book is a fundamental, nonpareil text." - Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times (London)

"The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video, and economics, is truly staggering. . . . Brilliant . . . " - Ziauddin Sardar, The Independent (London)

"No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism's history so well as Frederic Jameson." - Michael Bérubé, Voice Literary Supplement

"An encyclopedic grasp of modern culture." - Stuart Hall, Marxism Tody

"A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought." - Ned Lukacher, Choice

Frederic Jameson is William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of both the Graduate Program in Literature and the Duke Center for Critical Theory, Duke University. He has published widely on Marxism, literary theory, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. His books include Marxism and Form, The Prison House of Language, The Political Unconscious, Late Marxism and Signatures of the Visible.