{"product_id":"mimesis-expression-construction-fredric-jamesons-seminar-on-aesthetic-theory-9781915672162","title":"Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jamesons Seminar on Aesthetic Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMimesis, Expression, Construction\u003c\/i\u003e brings Fredric Jameson's famous Duke University seminar on Adorno's \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e into print for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranscribed and edited from audio recordings taken by Octavian Esanu of the original seminar at Duke University in 2003, \u003ci\u003eMimesis, Expression, Construction\u003c\/i\u003e reproduces Jameson and his students' engagement with \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most influential theories of modernist aesthetics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first and only published record of Jameson's teaching and pedagogic style, the seminar delves into modern and modernist aesthetics through the perspectives of Kant, Hegel, Freud, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche; Benjamin and other members of the Frankfurt School; the literary works of Thomas Mann and Samuel Beckett; the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg; the films of Chaplin, Vertov and Eisenstein; the aesthetic implications of psychoanalysis and biblical exegesis; classical music; and more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePresented in the format of a play, with stage setting, student interruptions and exchanges, interjections, auditory noises, and ambient sounds, and complemented with scans of students' notes, \u003ci\u003eMimesis, Expression, Construction\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking addition to the work of one of the greatest modern cultural critics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e (born April 14, 1934) is a prominent American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is currently Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies (French) and the director of the Center for Critical Theory at Duke University. Among his best-known titles are \u003ci\u003eMarxism and Form\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eValences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Antinomies of Realism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOctavian Esanu\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History and Director\/Curator of the American University of Beirut Art Galleries. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Does \"Why\" Mean?; Transition in Post-Soviet Art; Art, Awakening and Modernity in the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eContemporary Art and Capitalist Modernization\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Postsocialist Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641895981330,"sku":"9781915672162","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fce9fab2-7aa0-4417-95bf-04d767e1edb7.jpg?v=1733045213","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mimesis-expression-construction-fredric-jamesons-seminar-on-aesthetic-theory-9781915672162","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}