{"product_id":"after-year-zero","title":"After Year Zero: On Postwar German Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJAMESON’S LEGENDARY LECTURES ON GERMAN THOUGHT, TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this series of accessible lectures, Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy and critical theory as it de­veloped in the wake of World War Two. Focusing on key thinkers — Horkheimer, Adorno, Heidegger, Habermas, Marcuse, Beuys, Enzensberger, Kluge, and Sloterdijk — Jameson weaves close readings of texts with anecdotes and aperçus to craft a narrative about the uses of the­ory. He delves into world-historical phenomena, such as the legacy of Nazism and the formation of the European Union, in a story that stretches from the postwar division of Germany to its reunification at the end of the Cold War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Year Zero \u003c\/i\u003eis a vital account of the German critical tradition, as understood by the “most significant Marxist thinker in American culture.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/strong\u003e (14\/04\/34 - 22\/09\/24) was Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchaeologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eValences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hegel Variations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Capital.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarson Welch\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor) is a doctoral candidate in Literature at Duke University. He is the editor of Fredric Jameson’s \u003ci\u003eThe Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present \u003c\/i\u003e(Verso, 2024).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" Terry Eagleton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today. It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him.\" Colin McCabe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The most significant Marxist thinker in American culture.\" Cornel West\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jameson has long been the most alluring American literary theorist, the only one to match the French in style and depth.\" Angela Woodward, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jameson thinks dialectically in the strong sense, in the way we are all supposed to think but almost no one does.\" Michael Wood, \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The most muscular of writers.\" \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45000252489821,"sku":"9781836744023","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/afteryearzero.jpg?v=1788726547","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/en-us\/products\/after-year-zero","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}