"Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as America's most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions; a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism); and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study."-Jonathan Arac “A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought.” - Ned Lukacher (Choice) “An encyclopedic grasp of modern culture.” - Stuart Hall (Marxism Today) “For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism . . . Jameson’s book is a fundamental, nonpareil text.” - Gilbert Adair (Sunday Times (London)) “Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction. . . . <i>Postmodernism</i> is an intellectual blockbuster.” - Terry Eagleton (Irish Times) “No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism’s history so well as Fredric Jameson.” - Michael Bérubé (Voice Literary Supplement) “The scope and profundity of <i>Postmodernism</i>, covering theory, architecture, film, video, and economics, is truly staggering. . . . Brilliant . . .” - Siauddin Sardar (The Independent)