{"product_id":"late-marxism-adorno-or-the-persistence-of-the-dialectic-9781844675753","title":"Late Marxism: Adorno, Or, the Persistence of the Dialectic","description":"In the name of an assault on \"totalization\" and \"identity,\" a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism's dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernism and \"post-politics.\" A case in point is recent interpretation of one of the greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Theodor Adorno. In this powerful book, Fredric Jameson proposes a radically different reading of Adorno's work, especially of his major works on philosophy and aesthetics: \u003ci\u003eNegative Dialectics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJameson argues persuasively that Adorno's contribution to the development of Marxism remains unique and indispensable. He shows how Adorno's work on aesthetics performs deconstructive operations yet is in sharp distinction to the now canonical deconstructive genre of writing. He explores the complexity of Adorno's very timely affirmation of philosophy -- of its possibility after the \"end\" of grand theory. Above all, he illuminates the subtlety and richness of Adorno's continuing emphasis on late capitalism as a totality within the very forms of our culture. In its lucidity, \u003ci\u003eLate Marxism\u003c\/i\u003e echoes the writing of its subject, to whose critical, utopian intelligence Jameson remains faithful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchaeologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eValences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hegel Variations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Capital.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50567313981714,"sku":"9781844675753","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9fe86389-5774-4098-99a3-96e21a9b4de9.jpg?v=1731918181","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/late-marxism-adorno-or-the-persistence-of-the-dialectic-9781844675753","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}