"This book is both an introduction to and an intervention in the history of Marxism ... one is glad he has written it, because it remains the case that no one in the academy has quite the same energy as Fredric Jameson, and that no one writes books with sentences quite as forceful as these."--"Monthly Review"

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including "Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"; "The Cultural Turn";" A Singular Modernity"; "The Modernist Papers"; "Archaeologies of the Future"; "Brecht and Method";" Ideologies of Theory"; "Valences of the Dialectic"; and "The Hegel Variations."