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Allegory and Ideology charges an antique form with renewed political urgency. At its heart is the melancholy conviction that we can never directly lay hold of history. -- Ted Tregear * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books * Throughout this challenging, boundary-crossing new tome, we are repeatedly given such experiences of the intersection of the most minute details of a text and the grandest movements of history, making for a kind of head-spinning and euphoric journey. Yet this bewildering back-and-forth is in line, after all, with what the experience of the dialectic-with its unexpected connections between previously unrelated social strata-is supposed to feel like in the first place. In that, Jameson, as a dialectician, has once again achieved his aim. -- Thomas J. Millay * Critical Inquiry * The world, it seems, keeps trying to catch up to Jameson, whose talent for dialectical unification still shines forth with radioactive power. After you've read him, it's impossible to unsee what he's shown you: his phenomenology of everyday life reveals the hidden architecture of the capitalist mode of produciton with the aesthetic aptitude of a modern novelist. -- James Draney * Full Stop * Allegory, for Jameson, is less a means of overriding difference than a means of preserving it. To look at history and find a great deal of allegory, as this book does, is to find in history, amidst all the destruction, an impulse to preserve and a large quantity of successful preservation. -- Bruce Robbins * The Baffler * Allegory and Ideology involves its readers in the process of intellectual discovery. We may learn from the author of Allegory and Ideology the delight in moving ideas around, forcing them to change the company they keep, in order to see what happens. Jameson's distinctive feature seems to be the way in which his periods rework and transform all objects of analysis by placing them in an ever-shifting syntactical architecture. His intense account of Auerbach's Dante can easily be read as a declaration of Jameson's own poetics. Nothing has a meaning, in Allegory and Ideology, if not through a complex relation to everything else. -- Franco Moretti * New Left Review *

Praise for Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction. -- Terry Eagleton * Irish Times * Praise for Postmodernism: For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism . Jameson's book is a fundamental, nonpareil text. * Sunday Times * Praise for Postmodernism: The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video and economics, is truly staggering . Brilliant. * Independent * Praise for The Hegel Variations: Yields a series of audacious reading of a 'non-teleological' Hegel, throwing a distinctive light on such themes as master-slave dialectic, linguistic subjectivity, expressive production ('the animal kingdom of spirit'), normative division in the Antigone (inaugurating chapter 6, 'Spirit'), and the French Revolution. * Choice * Praise for The Hegel Variations: Jameson establishes the revisionist nature of his latest study from the very outset. For a work on a Hegel it is a conspicuously short but nonetheless fascinating work, one which encompasses all of the elliptical nuances, digressions and expansive inter-disciplinary scholarship which has characterized his past studies. * Glasgow Review of Books * Praise for The Hegel Variations: Variations shows how tenaciously Jameson wrestles with his angel to complicate further his relationship to Hegelian Marxism. -- Peter Hitchcock * Meditations * Praise for Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality: Jameson, now 82, has long been the most alluring American literary theorist, the only one to match the French in style and depth. This bravura book stems from a long engagement - we might say obsession - with Chandler; what had been a footnote 30 years ago now unfolds with full force. Jameson makes every strand of Chandler's oeuvre glisten with significance. -- Angela Woodward * Los Angeles Review of Books * Praise for Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video and economics, is truly staggering.Brilliant. * Independent * Praise for Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism.Jameson's book is a fundamental, nonparaeil text. * Sunday Times *

Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction. - Terry Eagleton Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him. - Colin MacCabe For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism ... Jameson's book is a fundamental, nonpareil text. - Sunday Times (in praise of Postmodernism) The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video and economics, is truly staggering ... Brilliant. - Independent (in praise of Postmodernism)

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Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University and recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, The Cultural Turn, and Representing Capital.

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