Late Marxism - (Radical Thinkers) by Fredric Jameson (Paperback)

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About the Book A lively and lucid introduction to one of the great Marxist thinkers of the 20th century by the master cultural critic. Book Synopsis 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: Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory. Jameson argues persu…