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Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
80
Citations
83932
World Ranking
360
National Ranking
168

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Holberg Prize, Government of Norway "for outstanding contributions to the understanding of the relation between social formations and cultural forms in a project he himself describes as the 'poetics of social forms'"
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1969 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Fredric Jameson was affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research focused primarily on Arts and Humanities, with a particular emphasis on Literature and Literary Theory, Political Science and International Relations, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Visual Arts and Performing Arts.

Their published work covered several interconnected topics, including Polish Historical and Cultural Studies, Diverse Academic Research Studies, Central European Literary Studies, Art, Politics, and Modernism, Historical and Scientific Studies, Decadence, Literature, and Society, as well as Semiotics and Representation Studies.

Fredric Jameson authored several papers throughout their career, with a record spanning from 2020 to 2025. Notable papers include:

  • "Klasa i alegoria we współczesnej kulturze masowej. "Pieskie popołudnie" jako film polityczny" (2021) published in Widok Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej
  • "On Levels and Categories" (2021) published in Historical Materialism
  • "Schematizations, or How to Draw a Thought" (2023) published in Critical Inquiry
  • "La estética de la singularidad" (2025) published in Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica
  • "Aesthetics Today" (2020) published in CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture

Frequent publication venues for Jameson's work included:

  • Critical Inquiry
  • Widok Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej
  • Historical Materialism
  • Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica
  • CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture

Their collaborations involved several co-authors, notably:

  • Keith B. Wagner
  • Michael Cramer
  • Jeremi Szaniawski
  • Ernst Bloch
  • Ronald Taylor

In terms of book publications, Fredric Jameson authored at least one book titled Fredric Jameson and Film Theory published by Rutgers University Press in 2022.

Their career was marked by several awards and honors, including the Holberg Prize, awarded by the Government of Norway in 2008, recognizing their work on the relation between social formations and cultural forms. They were also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985 and received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in both 1969 and 1978.

Best Publications

  • The Political Unconscious

    Fredric Jameson

  • Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

    Fredric Jameson

  • The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

    Tom Conley;Fredric Jameson

  • Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions

    Fredric Jameson

  • Postmodernism and Consumer Society

    Fredric Jameson

  • Third‐World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism

    Fredric Jameson

  • The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

    Fredric Jameson

  • Marxism and Form

    Fredric Jameson

  • The prison-house of language

    Fredric Jameson

  • The cultural turn : selected writings on the postmodern, 1983-1998

    Fredric Jameson

  • El posmodernismo o la lógica cultural del capitalismo avanzado

    Fredric Jameson;José Luis Pardo Torío

  • A singular modernity : essay on the ontology of the present

    Fredric Jameson

  • The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System

    Fredric Jameson

  • Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture

    Fredric Jameson

  • Signatures of the Visible

    Frederic Jameson

  • The cultures of globalization

    Fredric Jameson;Masao Miyoshi

  • The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

    Fredric Jameson

  • The Seeds of Time

    Fredric Jameson

  • Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature

    Terry Eagleton;Fredric Jameson;Edward W. Said

  • Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue

    Fredric Jameson

  • Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

    Ralph Flores;Fredric Jameson

  • The Part and the Whole@@@Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist@@@The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

    Michael Sprinker;Fredric Jameson

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanley Fish
Stanley Fish Florida International University
Edward W. Said
Edward W. Said Columbia University
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard Université Paris Cité
Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton Lancaster University
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt
Jonathan Culler
Jonathan Culler Cornell University
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes Université Paris Cité
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty Stanford University

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