Jameson on Jameson

Conversations on Cultural Marxism

Fredric Jameson, Ian Buchanan, Stanley Fish

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9780822341093
  9780822340874
• eBook ISBN:
  9780822390176
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism Theory
• Index: Literature

Fredric Jameson is one of the most influential literary and cultural critics writing today. He is a theoretical innovator whose ideas about the intersections of politics and culture have reshaped the critical landscape across the humanities and social sciences. Bringing together ten interviews conducted between 1982 and 2005, Jameson on Jameson is a compellingly candid introduction to his thought for those new to it, and a rich source of illumination and clarification for those seeking deeper understanding. Jameson discusses his intellectual and political preoccupations, most prominently his commitment to Marxism as a way of critiquing capitalism and the culture it has engendered. He explains many of his key concepts, including postmodernism, the dialectic, metacommentary, the political unconscious, the utopian, cognitive mapping, and spatialization.

Jameson on Jameson displays Jameson's extraordinary grasp of contemporary culture—architecture, art, cinema, literature, philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, and urban geography—as well as the challenge that the geographic reach of his thinking poses to the Eurocentricity of the West. Conducted by accomplished scholars from United States, Egypt, Korea, China, Sweden, and England, the interviews elicit Jameson's reflections on the broad international significance of his ideas and their applicability and implications in different cultural and political contexts, including the present phase of globalization.

The volume includes an introduction by Jameson and a comprehensive bibliography of his publications in all languages.

Interviewers: Mona Abousenna, Abbas Al-Tonsi, Srinivas Aravamudan, Jonathan Culler, Sara Danius, Leonard Green, Sabry Hafez, Stuart Hall, Stefan Jonsson, Ranjana Khanna, Richard Klein, Horacio Machin, Paik Nak-chung, Michael Speaks, Anders Stephanson, Xudong Zhang

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: On Not Giving Interviews
• Interview with Leonard Green, Jonathan Culler, and Richard Klein
• Interview with Anders Stephanson
• Interview with Paik Nak-chung
• Interview with Sabry Hafez, Abbas Al-Tonsi, and Mona Abousenna
• Interview with Stuart Hall
• Interview with Michael Speaks
• Interview with Horacio Machín
• Interview with Sara Danius and Stefan Jonsson
• Interview with Xudong Zhang
• Interview with Srinivas Aravamudan and Ranjana Khanna
• Bibliography
• Interviewers
• Index