Marxism and modernity in Fredric Jameson

Author(s)

Giovanna Henrique Marcelino

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2017-09-14

Examining board members

Ricardo Musse; Ruy Gomes Braga Neto; Maria Elisa Burgos Pereira da Silva Cevasco; Fabio Akcelrud Durão

• Advisor: Ricardo Musse

Abstract

This dissertation aims to present a study on the work of the American Marxist critic Fredric Jameson in order to identify how it can be read in the key of social theory. For this, two main parameters were chosen: the theme of modernity and the Marxist attempt to conceptualize contemporary capitalism. Thus, our central goal was to promote an analysis of the historical periodization proposed by the author under the terms \"postmodernism\", \"late capitalism\" and \"globalization\", and how it presents a systemic and totalizing vision of the social transformations of the last decades, based mainly on the interpretation of texts that compose his intellectual production from the 1980s. It is therefore a study that aimed to relate conceptual problems of sociology to the understanding of capitalist society at its most recent stage. Our ultimate goal was to provide a contribution to the interpretation of Jameson\'s work, as well as to the field of Marxist theory and its critical understanding of actuality. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/25533-4 - Marxist critique and modernity in Fredric Jameson
• Grantee: Giovanna Henrique Marcelino
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master