Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as America's most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions; a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism); and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study.-Jonathan Arac
A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought. -- Ned Lukacher * Choice *
An encyclopedic grasp of modern culture. -- Stuart Hall * Marxism Today *
For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism . . . Jameson's book is a fundamental, nonpareil text. -- Gilbert Adair * Sunday Times (London) *
Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction. . . . Postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster. -- Terry Eagleton * Irish Times *
No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism's history so well as Fredric Jameson. -- Michael Berube * Voice Literary Supplement *
The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video, and economics, is truly staggering. . . . Brilliant . . . -- Siauddin Sardar * The Independent *
