Full name: A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present

Author: Fredric Jameson Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781859844502 9781781680223 1859844502 1781680221

The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this new intervention, Fredric Jameson--perhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernity--excavates and explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner. The extraordinary revival of discussions of modernity, as well as of new theories of artistic modernism, demands attention in its own right. It seems clear that the (provisional) disappearance of alternatives to capitalism plays its part in the universal attempt to revive 'modernity' as a social ideal. Yet the paradoxes of the concept illustrate its legitimate history and suggest some rules for avoiding its misuse as well. In this major new interpretation of the problematic, Jameson concludes that both concepts are tainted, but nonetheless yield clues as to the nature of the phenomena they purported to theorize. His judicious and vigilant probing of both terms--which can probably not be banished at this late date--helps us clarify our present political and artistic situations. Similar books: Late Marxism by Fredric Jameson Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein On Relationship by Jiddu Krishnamurti Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein Musashi's Book of Five Rings by Stephen F. Kaufman Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics by Tara Smith The Warrior Within by John Little Nietzsche and Zen by Andre van der Braak Luhmann Explained by Hans-Georg Moeller Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead The Philosophy of Jesus by Peter Kreeft Philosophical Remarks by Ludwig Wittgenstein A New Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis Nothing Matters by Ronald Green The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt The Death of God and the Meaning of Life by Julian Young A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy by Stephen P. Schwartz How to Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk