Fredric Jameson, 1934-2024

Volume 36, No. 2 Fall 2024

Editors' Note by Nicholas Brown and Maria Elisa Cevasco

A New Reading of Capital by Fredric Jameson

In an essay from 2010, Fredric Jameson previews the argument of his then-forthcoming book, Representing Capital. Is Capital about labor, or unemployment? Does Marxism have a theory of the political, or is it better off without one?

Book Reviews

It's Dialectical! by Nicholas Brown

In a 2010 review, Nicholas Brown discusses Fredric Jameson’s Valences of the Dialectic. Jameson’s contribution to dialectical thought is monumental in scope. What might his reengagement with the dialectic mean both in the context of Jameson’s work and for Marxism today?

The Jameson Variable by Peter Hitchcock

Peter Hitchcock reviews The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit in 2012. How does Fredric Jameson’s Marxism extend his Hegel, and how does his Hegelianism inflect his Marx?

Crisis and Clarity: Fredric Jameson’s The Antinomies of Realism, Affect, and the Problem of Representing Totality Today by Thomas A. Laughlin

Thomas Laughlin, in 2019, reviews Fredric Jameson’s Antinomies of Realism in the context of Jameson’s own trajectory, the history of dialectical criticism, and the ideologies of capitalism.