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THE HEGEL VARIATIONS: ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT

By FREDRIC JAMESON

Published: 23rd August 2010


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In this major new study, philosopher and cultural critic Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought: Hegel's PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT.

Whereas other writers have interpreted the PHENOMENOLOGY as a rigidly closed system, Jameson discovers it to be a more fluid, open-ended work. Hegel's mind is revealed to be a less systematic mechanism than normally thought, one whose ideas never solidify into pure abstractions. The conclusion of the PHENOMENOLOGY, on the aftermath of the French Revolution, is examined as a provisional stalemate between the political and the social - a situation from which Jameson draws important lessons for our own age.


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"A genuinely monumental work that I expect to be referring to for many years." Mark Fisher, author of CAPITALIST REALISM: IS THERE NO ALTERNATIVE?
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"Not often in American writing since Henry James can there have been a mind displaying at once such tentativeness and force... The best of Jameson's work has felt mind-blowing in the way of LSD or mushrooms: here before you is the world you'd always known you were living in, but apprehended as if for the first time in the freshness of its beauty and horror." Benjamin Kunkel, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n08/benjamin-kunkel/into-the-big-tent

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Praise for FREDRIC JAMESON

"Jameson is one of the world's most eminent cultural theorists, but he is also a peerless literary critic in the classical sense of the term, one whose strength has always been to grasp history or ideology as form, genre and style, as secretly at work in the grain and texture of literary language." - LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

 "Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction...One of the great writers of our time, not just one of the most formidably gifted critics and cultural theorists." - Terry Eagleton

"Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him." Colin MacCabe


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FREDRIC JAMESON is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. He is the author of many books, including POSTMODERNISM, OR THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM, A SINGULAR MODERNITY, THE MODERNIST PAPERS, ARCHEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE, and IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY.



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ISBN: 978-1-84467-616-3 / $24.95 / £14.99 / CAN$31.00 / Hardback / 144 Pages

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