Re: Jameson

[Ralph Dumain <rdumain@xxxxxxx>]

I see someone else already sent you the needed paragraph.  I would love to
know your thoughts on this book.  English is my native language, but I
couldn't make heads or tails out of Jameson's book, and I loathe the way he
writes.  So maybe I can learn something this way.

Right now I'm reading Adorno's THE JARGON OF AUTHENTICITY, an interesting
approach.  It might be worthwhile comparing it to the critiques done by
Bourdieu and Lukacs.  Bronner also wrote a good chapter on
Heidegger.  Adorno's approach focuses on the deceptiveness of
existentialist language.

At 05:29 PM 4/19/2003 -0300, filipe ceppas wrote:
>Dear list members,
>
>I am reading Jameson, Late Marxism, Adorno or the persistence of the
>dialectic, in Portuguese. I wonder if someone could do me a great favour
>sending me the last paragraph of Chapter 4 (use and abuse of cuture critic)
>in English. And I would love to hear any comments about Jameson's ideas on
>Adorno. So far, I think it is a good reavaliation of some important
>questions and problems of Adorno's philosophy. Do I have to be prepared for
>the whipping post by saying it? :-)
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Filipe


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