Fredric Jameson

1934 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Haverford College, Yale University, Moorestown Friends School

occupation: essayist, political scientist, writer, professor, literary critic, sociologist, journalist, editor, politician, philosopher, literary theorist, teacher

award received: Holberg International Memorial Prize, Pilgrim Award, Wilbur Cross Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship

influenced by: Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vladimir Lenin, Theodor W. Adorno, György Lukács, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Philip K. Dick, Raymond Williams, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jean-Paul Sartre

Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is 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). Jameson is the Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Romance Studies (French), and Director of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University. In 2012, the Modern Language Association gave Jameson its sixth Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement. Source: Wikipedia (en)