"Exploding like so many magnesium flares in the night sky, Fredric Jameson's writings have lit up the shrouded landscape of the postmodern ..The Cultural Turn offers the most compact and complete resume on the subject." Perry Anderson "Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today .. It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him." Colin MacCabe

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University, and the author of many classic works including Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism and Archaeologies of the Future. His Valences of the Dialectic is forthcoming from Verso.