Holberg International Memorial Prize to Fredric R. Jameson

Fredric R. Jameson has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of the relation between social formations and cultural forms in a project he himself describes as the “poetics of social forms”. His work combines profound theoretical and philosophical ideas with painstaking fidelity to particular cultural objects.

Fredric R. Jameson (born in 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio) is one of today’s most important and most influential cultural theorists. He has done more for the contextual study of culture than any other living scholar. Over the past four decades, he has developed a richly nuanced theory of how modern culture – in particular, literature, painting, cinema, and architecture – relates to social and economic developments.

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