Fredric Jameson
Comparative
Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University
SEMINAR
The Three Names of the Dialectic
Friday, February 29 / 3-5 PM / Humanities 210
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Fredric
Jameson is the William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and
Romance Studies at Duke University and Director, since 2003,
of Duke University’s
Institute for Critical Theory. He is the author of over 20 books, including
Marxism and Form (Princeton, 1971), The Prison-House of Language (Princeton,
1972), The Political Unconscious (Cornell, 1981), Late Marxism:
Adorno, or, the Persistence of the Dialectic (Verso, 1990), Signatures of the
Visible (Routledge, 1990), Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic
of Late Capitalism (Duke,1990, winner of the MLA James Russell Lowell Award in
1990), Seeds of
Time (Columbia, 1994), Brecht and Method (Verso, 1998), The
Cultural Turn
(Verso, 1998), A Singular Modernity (Verso, 2002), and The
Modernist Papers (Verso,
2007). At Duke he teaches modernism, Third World literature and cinema,
Marx & Freud,
the modern French novel and cinema, and the
Frankfurt School. Among Fredric Jameson’s ongoing concerns is the
need to analyze literature as an encoding of political and social imperatives,
and
the interpretation of modernist and postmodernist assumptions through a
rethinking of Marxist methodology. He is on the Editorial Board of South
Atlantic Quarterly,
Critical Inquiry, Rethinking Marxism, and boundary
2, among others. His
work has been translated into Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Finnish, French,
German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian,
Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish.
This seminar will be an introduction to the dialectic as a philosophical system and a method of thought, taking into account many of the current objections to this mode of thinking.
For more information please contact Gopal Balakrishnan, gopalb@ucsc.edu.
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