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For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Through penetrating readings of each theorist, Jameson developed a critical mode of engagement that has had tremendous in.uence. He provided a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making--in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form. Jameson's presentation of the critical thought of this Hegelian Marxism provided a stark alternative to the Anglo-American tradition of empiricism and humanism. It would later provide a compelling alternative to poststructuralism and deconstruction as they became dominant methodologies in aesthetic criticism. One year after Marxism and Form, Princeton published Jameson's The Prison-House of Language (1972), which provided a thorough historical and philosophical description of formalism and structuralism. Both books remain central to Jameson's main intellectual legacy: describing and extending a tradition of Western Marxism in cultural theory and literary interpretation.

Dialectical materialism. --- Marxist criticism.

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"Ce fut un merveilleux lever de soleil", avait dit Hegel à propos de la Révolution française. L'expression fut également utilisée pour qualifier Mai 68 et le dernier assaut prolétarien des années 1960-70 qui tendait à abolir le capitalisme. Ni traité philosophique, ni leçon politique, cet ouvrage cherche à tester la validité théorique de certains concepts hégéliens et marxiens au regard des bouleversements de ce qu'on peut désormais nommer "la révolution du capital". Il cherche aussi à dégager des possibles pour un devenir autre.

Dialectical materialism. --- Philosophy, Marxist. --- Social conflict.

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In recent decades, what is known as 'the subject' has been problematized by various old and new materialisms and today appears as decentered in and by language, split by the unconscious, deformed by social forces, governed by ideology and is either seen to have succumbed to the postmodern condition or to never have existed in the first place. Every materialist theory of the subject depends on a conception of materiality, which can delineate the character of what the material reality, which de-centers or constitutes the subject consists of. Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics investigates the relation between materiality and the subject in the materialist approaches of Marxism, (post-)structuralism, and material semiotics. None of these approaches subscribes to a reductionist materialism; rather, they conceive of materiality as multiple, complex, and not reducible to tangible matter. For each approach, the modalities of materiality of the respective materialism are defined. The relationship between the multiple materialities and the subject constituted and decentered in this relationship are presented as specific to the theoretical approaches discussed.

Materialism. --- Subject (Philosophy) --- Semiotics and literature. --- Dialectical materialism.

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Combining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects of Henry James', H. Melville's and H.G. Wells' novels question notions of natural order, as well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective.

Dialectical materialism. --- Science in literature. --- Science in motion pictures. --- Performing arts --- Film & video --- History & criticism.

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"In 'Metaphilosophy', Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx's revolutionary thought to consider philosphy's engagement with the world. Lefebvre takes Marx's notion of the 'world becoming philosophical and philosopy becoming worldly' as a leitmotif, examining the relation between Hegelian-Marxist supersession and Nietzschean overcoming. Metaphilosophy is conceived of as a transformation of philosophy, developing it into a programme of radical worldwide change. The book demonstrates Lefebvre's threefold debt to Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, but it also brings a number of other figures into the conversation, including Sartre, Heidegger and Axelos. A key text in Lefebvre's oeuvre, 'Metaphilosophy' is also a milestone in contemporary thinking about philosophy's relation to the world."--Back cover.

Dialectical materialism. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Dialektisk materialism. --- 08.25 contemporary western philosophy (20th and 21th century). --- 1900-1999. --- filosofie --- sociologie --- 32 --- 1 --- 130.2 --- cultuurfilosofie --- marxisme --- politicologie --- Materialism, Dialectical --- Philosophy, Marxist --- Socialism --- Dialectical materialism