Valences of the Dialectic

624 Pages·2010·2.577 MB·English

by  Fredric Jameson

VALENCES OF THE DIALECTIC

VALENCES OF THE DIALECTIC
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FREDRIC JAMESON
First published by Verso 2009
Copyright © Fredric Jameson 2009
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Contents
I. THE THREE NAMES OF THE DIALECTIC
1 The Three Names of The Dialectic 3
II. HEGEL WITHOUT AUFHEBUNG
2 Hegel and Reification 75
3 Hegel’s Contemporary Critics 102
III. COMMENTARIES
4 Marx’s Purloined Letter 127
5 Deleuze and Dualism 181
6 “History and Class Consciousness” as an Unfinished Project 201
7 Sartre’s Critique, Volume One: An Introduction 223
8 Sartre’s Critique, Volume Two: An Introduction 241
IV. ENTRIES
9 Commodification 257
10 Cultural Revolution 267
11 Persistencies of the Dialectic: Three Sites 279
12 Lenin as Political Thinker 291
13 Rousseau and Contradiction 303
14 Ideological Analysis: A Handbook 315
V. POLITICS
15 Actually Existing Marxism 367
16 Utopia as Replication 410
17 Globalization as a Philosophical Issue 435
18 Globalization as Political Strategy 456
VI. THE VALENCES OF HISTORY
19 The Valences of History 475
Part I. Making Time Appear
Temporality and Figuration (475); Ricoeur’s Project (484);
Aristotle vs. Semiotics (490); The Phenomenology of Narrative
(495); Augustine vs. Aristotle (498); Ricoeur’s Three Mimeses (502);
Eudamonics (510); Closure of the Act (512); Modernism and the
Categories of Time (515); The Time of the Historians (532)
Part II. Making History Appear
Taking Sides (546); Peripeteia (552); Anagnorisis (565); Pathos (583)
Acknowledgments 613
Index 614
PART I
THE THREE NAMES
OF THE DIALECTIC