{"product_id":"mimesis-expression-construction-isbn-9781915672162","title":"Mimesis, Expression, Construction","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMimesis, Expression, Construction\u003c\/i\u003e brings Fredric Jameson's famous Duke University seminar on Adorno’s \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e into print for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranscribed and edited from audio recordings taken by Octavian Esanu of the original seminar at Duke University in 2003, \u003ci\u003eMimesis, Expression, Construction\u003c\/i\u003e reproduces Jameson and his students' engagement with \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most influential theories of modernist aesthetics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first and only published record of Jameson's teaching and pedagogic style, the seminar delves into modern and modernist aesthetics through the perspectives of Kant, Hegel, Freud, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche; Benjamin and other members of the Frankfurt School; the literary works of Thomas Mann and Samuel Beckett; the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg; the films of Chaplin, Vertov and Eisenstein; the aesthetic implications of psychoanalysis and biblical exegesis; classical music; and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresented in the format of a play, with stage setting, student interruptions and exchanges, interjections, auditory noises, and ambient sounds, and complemented with scans of students' notes, \u003ci\u003eMimesis, Expression, Construction\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking addition to the work of one of the greatest modern cultural critics.“Jameson on Adorno? It’s like reading Benjamin on Brecht, or Sartre on Baudelaire. A great Oedipal drama.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e— T.J. Clark, author of If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Mind-blowing... What we get here is not the insight in some secret core of Jameson’s thought lost in later gentrified published versions but, on the contrary, a flow of improvisations and mental experimentations where the detours through secondary topics are often more precious than the main line of argumentation.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e— \u003cb\u003eSlavoj ŽIžek\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e (born April 14, 1934) is a prominent American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is currently Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies (French) and the director of the Center for Critical Theory at Duke University. Among his best-known titles are \u003ci\u003eMarxism and Form\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eValences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Antinomies of Realism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOctavian Esanu\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History and Director\/Curator of the American University of Beirut Art Galleries. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Does “Why” Mean?; Transition in Post-Soviet Art; Art, Awakening and Modernity in the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eContemporary Art and Capitalist Modernization\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Postsocialist Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301292986597,"sku":"NP9781915672162","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781915672162.jpg?v=1767732708","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/mimesis-expression-construction-isbn-9781915672162","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}