%0 Journal Article
%T A Singular Modernist: Fredric Jameson and the Politics of Modernism
%A Homer
%A Sean
%J VTU Review: Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences
%D 2017
%X For the past 30 years Fredric Jameson¡¯s name has been so inextricably tied to the fate of postmodernism that his recent work on modernity and modernism has been interpreted by some critics as a ¡°retreat¡± from the cutting edge of contemporary cultural theory to politically regressive and imperialistic notions of modernity. For some of us, however, Jameson¡¯s recent work marks a welcome return to what he always did best, writing about modernism. The ¡°Preface¡± to A Singular Modernity (2002), however, seems to exhibit a marked weariness on Jameson¡¯s part to returning once again to all those old undesirable issues that it had been ¡°one of the great achievements of postmodernity¡± to have discredited (1). It is not just the renewed interest in notions of modernity in popular political and academic discourse that concerns Jameson but, I want to argue, a much older ¡°dispute in the politics and philosophy of history.¡± What remains at stake for Jameson in these ¡°undesirable¡± issues of modernity and modernism is the fate of socialism¡¯s emancipatory project in light of the seemingly irresistible triumph of global capital
%K Fredric Jameson^ Marshall Berman^ T.J. Clark^ aesthetics^ politics^ modernism^ postmodernism^ utopia
%U http://journals.uni-vt.bg/vtureview/eng/vol1/iss1/5