Description: This wide-ranging work seeks to crystallize a definition of postmodernism. The author looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from high art to low; from market ideology to architecture, from painting to punk; film, from video art to literature.
Review Quotes: "A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought."--Ned Lukacher, Choice
"An encyclopedic grasp of modern culture."--Stuart Hall, Marxism Today "For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism . . . Jameson's book is a fundamental, nonpareil text."--Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times (London) "Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction. . . . Postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster."--Terry Eagleton, Irish Times "No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism's history so well as Fredric Jameson."--Michael Bérubé, Voice Literary Supplement "The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video, and economics, is truly staggering. . . . Brilliant . . ."--Siauddin Sardar, The Independent