Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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"Frederic Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writing sweep magisterially form sophocles to science fiction. . . .postmodernismis 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