For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the A

A study of the works of Jean-Paul Sartre, T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács.

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