{"product_id":"the-cultural-turn-isbn-9781844673490","title":"The Cultural Turn","description":"Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture stand alongside essays on the status of history, theory, Marxism, and the subject in an age propelled by finance capital and endless spectacle. Surveying the debates that blazed up around his earlier essays, Jameson responds to critics and maps out the theoretical positions of postmodernism’s prominent friends and foes.“Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him.”—Colin MacCabe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Exploding like so many magnesium flares in the night sky, Fredric Jameson’s writings have lit up the shrouded landscape of the postmodern ... \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Turn\u003c\/i\u003e offers the most compact and complete résumé on the subject.”—Perry Anderson\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture’s relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchaeologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eValences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hegel Variations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Capital.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304276644069,"sku":"NP9781844673490","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844673490.jpg?v=1767738888","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-cultural-turn-isbn-9781844673490","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}