Jameson also will sign copies of his books at the Bookstore at noon Tuesday, Jan. 26, and participate in a discussion that afternoon from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Humanities Center Annex.
All events are free and open to the public.
An internationally recognized Marxist theorist of modern culture, Jameson has concentrated in recent years on contemporary artistic practices, from avant-garde literature to corporate architecture, and is perhaps best known for the essays collected in his book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Jameson seriously engages numerous non-Marxist approaches to art, identifies their local validities, and deftly adapts their insights to his own purposes. This inclusiveness produces an intellectual method that both revitalizes classical Marxism's core concepts and revolutionizes our understanding of the politics of artistic practice since the 19th century. Born in Cleveland in 1934, Jameson graduated from Haverford College in 1954 and earned his doctorate at Yale University. During the early 1960s Jameson's interest in Sartre shifted to the philosopher's Marxist theory and culminated in his second book, Marxism and Form.