Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory. Postwar French Thought to the Present (Verso 2024)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Who was Fredric Jameson? What were the years of Theory? Jameson died last year, leaving behind a thick and rich legacy of, well, Theory. Already in advance, the title of this book of lectures seems to anticipate the possibility that Theory may also be terminal. Has the moment of Theory then passed?
by Rjurik Davidson
The King is dead, long live the King!” This ancient French phrase, dating to at least the Fifteenth Century, is the kind that might have set Fredric Jameson on one of his extended, languorous, alternately dense and playful, intellectually demanding examinations. Marxism’s preeminent cultural critic for more than fifty years, Jameson was the foremost proponent of dialectical thought, in which two seemingly contradictory phenomena were shown to be united by some underlying logic.
by Andrew Milner
Fredric Jameson died on 22 September 2024, aged 90, at his home in Killingworth, Connecticut.
