Fredric Jameson (1934 to 2024) was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist, best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, above all postmodernity and capitalism. His best-known books include The Political Unconscious, published in 1981, and Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, published in 1991, which began as a 1984 article in the New Left Review. He held a chair in comparative literature and Romance studies at Duke University and directed its Institute for Critical Theory.
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He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism.
Wikipedia: Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
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