In one book, this thinker claimed that political meaning is "the absolute horizon of all reading and allinterpretation" and claimed that Saussure was the origin of the decoupling of language and knowledge frompolitics; that is his book denouncing structuralism, The Prison-House of Language.
In one book, this thinker claimed that political meaning is "the absolute horizon of all reading and allinterpretation" and claimed that Saussure was the origin of the decoupling of language and knowledge frompolitics; that is his book denouncing structuralism, The Prison-House of Language. He wrote a studyaccusing Wyndham Lewis of being a fascist, Fables of Aggression. A major book by this author noted thathigh culture and mass culture "implode" together in a "new depthlessness" that replaces parody withpastiche and eliminates the "critical distance" needed to avoid being an "embellishment to society." Heclaims that the title concept's "rejection of totality" renders it part of the current economic system in thatbook. For 10 points, name this left-wing thinker who attacked authors such as Derrida for undermining theclassical Marxist project in his book Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.
In one book, this thinker claimed that political meaning is "the absolute horizon of all reading and allinterpretation" and claimed that Saussure was the origin of the decoupling of language and knowledge frompolitics; that is his book denouncing structuralism, The Prison-House of Language.
Frederic Jameson