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Research On Jameson’s Theory Of Post Modernist Culture

Posted on:2017-03-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330488960522Subject:Marxist theory
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Jameson as a famous contemporary American postmodern cultural theorist, the idea is formed by the junction of late capitalism culture and popular culture. From the middle of the last century by century, Jameson’s thought of postmodernism culture is always one of the hot problems in the research of scholars both at home and abroad. However, academia on his evaluation of postmodern theory there are still a lot of differences, especially in the west,some scholars believe that Jameson himself the attitude of postmodernism culture is inconsistent; Some scholars think he strayed from the Marxism, but the voice of the mainstream or giving his theory to high praise.Inclusive Jameson’s postmodern theory, coherence, firmness, innovative and effective characteristics of the postmodern cultural theory is the Marxism theory of sublimation. As a staunch Marxist theorist, Jameson’s research on cultural logic of late capitalism kernel on Marxist cultural theory as the thought, is a blend of the last century the mainstream thought essence and the construction of his postmodern cultural criticism theory. Postmodern theory,his logic and mass culture characteristics of post-industrial era culture made naked and sharp words, reflects his dislike of postmodernism culture. But, in the process of studying these culture constitute, Jameson aware of postmodernism culture is the basis of capital expansion during the period of late capitalism caused, on this basis, he summarizes the characteristics of postmodernism culture, such as the depth of work-pieces, the disappearance of the disappearance of historical significance, emotion, and the disappearance of the distance, he thought, the characteristics of these in the industrial age the necessity of this culture, and thus,formed his theory of postmodern cultural criticism. Jameson’s theory of the third world culture very seriously, he thinks the capital expansion of post-industrial era, different regions are experiencing a similar experience, theory has become common to, so he started the third world cultural viewpoint, and put forward the third world culture with capitalism postmodern cultural difference, and puts forward the theory of political culture. The characteristics of Jameson’s postmodern theory of culture and content for our building of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics have important enlightenment function.
Keywords/Search Tags:Postmodernism, Political unconscious, Cognitive mapping, Cultural theory of the third world, Mass culture
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