Fredric Jameson was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jameson’s best-known books include Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) and The Political Unconscious (1981).
Books in order of publication:
Sartre: The Origins of a Style. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1961.
Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1971.
The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1972.
Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1979. Reissued: Verso, 2008.
The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 1981.
Postmodernism and Cultural Theories (Chinese: 后现代主义与文化理论; pinyin: Hòuxiàndàizhǔyì yǔ wénhuà lǐlùn). Tr. Tang Xiaobing. Xi’an: Shaanxi Normal University Press. 1987.
The Ideologies of Theory. Essays 1971–1986. Vol. 1: Situations of Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1988. (anthology)
The Ideologies of Theory. Essays 1971–1986. Vol. 2: The Syntax of History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1988. (anthology)
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature. (with Terry Eagleton and Edward Said) Derry: Field Day, 1988.
Late Marxism: Adorno, or The Persistence of the Dialectic. London & New York: Verso. 1990.
Signatures of the Visible. New York & London: Routledge. 1990.
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1991.
The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1992.
The Seeds of Time. The Wellek Library lectures at the University of California, Irvine. New York: Columbia University Press. 1994.
Brecht and Method. London & New York: Verso. 1998. Reissued: 2011.
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983–1998. London & New York: Verso. 1998. Reissued: 2009. (anthology)
The Jameson Reader. Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks. Oxford: Blackwell. 2000.
A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present. London & New York: Verso. 2002 (anthology)
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. London & New York: Verso. 2005. (semi-anthology)
The Modernist Papers. London & New York Verso. 2007.
Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism. Ed. Ian Buchanan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2007.
The Ideologies of Theory. London & New York: Verso. 2009. (anthology; altered one-volume re-edition, with additional essays)
Valences of the Dialectic. London & New York: Verso. 2009.
The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit. London & New York: Verso. 2010.
Representing ‘Capital’: A Commentary on Volume One. London & New York: Verso. 2011.
The Antinomies of Realism. London & New York: Verso. 2013.
The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms. London & New York: Verso. 2015.
(with others) An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army. Ed. Slavoj Žižek. London and New York: Verso. 2016.
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality. London and New York: Verso. 2016.
Allegory and Ideology. London and New York: Verso. 2019.
The Benjamin Files. London and New York: Verso. 2020.
Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson’s Seminar on Aesthetic Theory. Ed. Octavian Esanu. London: Repeater. 2024
Inventions of a Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization. London and New York: Verso. 2024
The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present. Ed. Carson Welch. London and New York: Verso. 2024
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