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"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 Praise for Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism "One of the most persuasive cognitive maps of the evolution of culture in the West in the period from the mid-twentieth century to the present day." J. M. Coetzee
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In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text "The Phenomenology of Spirit". In contrast to those who see The Phenomenology as a closed system ending with Absolute Spirit, Jameson's reading presents an open work in which Hegel has not yet reconstituted himself in terms of a systematic philosophy (Hegelianism) and in which the moments of the dialectic and its levels have not yet been formalized. The ending, on the aftermath of the French Revolution, is interpreted by Jameson as a provisional stalemate between the political and the social, which is here extrapolated to our own time.
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Short and Sweet, July 10 2010
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This book combines some very interesting insights and claims about the Phenomenology of Spirit with a short, lucid format - lucid if one is used to Jameson's long, sometimes baroque constructions. Despite its accessible length, the book can at times presuppose a surprising amount of familiarity with Hegel's book and the literature on it. Other times, however, Jameson slowly introduces a commentator, key claims, vocabulary, etc. in ways that are very accessible. As a result, in many ways it is an uneven read when it comes to accessibility. Those familiar with Hegel and such commentators as Kojeve will find it pleasantly breezy, with every few pages providing a very rich nugget of food for thought on many fronts philosophical, cultural, historical, political, and of course, scholarly. If one is already familiar with Hegel, I would highly recommend this quick read for its interesting insights into a Hegel who does not believe in teleology - in an ultimate moment of history, but rather one committed to the dynamism of human rationality, as each failed attempt of common sense and its derivatives struggles to rebound. In many ways, Jameson seems to argue that it is this struggle to rebound, not some ultimately derivative form of common sense (which Jameson identifies with Verstand), that constitutes Absolute Knowing.
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read it or be left behind, Mar 17 2011
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Jameson does to Hegel, what the "liberation theologians" did to moltmann's theology of hope. Therefore it is a very important book to read for any Hegelian scholar. This short book will take a slow and careful reading. Not a breeze, thankfully. Jameson is well read and has covered all the critical work on Hegel over the past 30 years. He uses the current language employed by today's Hegelian academic circle. And he generates a few new "significant words" of his own as a contribution. The academic climate continues to change regarding Hegel, about every 10 years. You better read and assimilate this if you want to be on board the next 10 years.
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