Frederic jameson biography summary

Fredric Jameson's Bio Back More. I love talking about work—not only because I'm a Marxist, but also because I do a lot of it. By then, I was armpits deep in Marxist literary theory. I was studying scads of other Marxist theorists and became even more committed to the idea that cultural criticism has an important role to play in Marxist thought.

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I had a few compatriots, but a lot of academics were thinking that Marxism was a "so 50 years ago" kind of thing. I started hammering home my ideas about late-era capitalism and really stirred up a hornet's nest. You can now find me at Duke University. My website lists my publications, my specialties, and even summarizes the seminar I am teaching.

There, I clearly state my intellectual mission: "to analyze literature as an encoding of political and social imperatives, and the interpretation of modernist and postmodernist assumptions through a rethinking of Marxist methodology. Education I'm living proof that you don't have to attend an Ivy League school to achieve world domination.

Okay, maybe that's a tasteless remark for a Marxist to make, but you get the point. I went to Haverford College, where it was my great "privilege" I like to put class-related words in quotation marks so you don't think I am assuming economic privilege to study under the formidable thinker Wayne Booth. After that, I did a little globetrotting to France and Germany, where things were happening at least by an academic's standards.

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It was s Europe, and Continental Philosophy was the hot trend. It was like the intellectual's version of Spring Break in Miami Beach. With my "wealth" of knowledge, I returned to the country every Marxist loves to hate: the United States.