The Seeds of Time

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by Fredric Jameson

Columbia University Press

Due/Published May 1994, 240 pages, paper

ISBN 023108059X

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Jameson's continued investigation of postmodernism under late capitalism.

In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty-"a telling of the future," as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck."

"Jameson remains heedless of trendy appeals for politically minded academics to remake themselves as 'public intellectuals'. . . . The implicit subject of The Seeds of Time is timely indeed: our collective failure of historical imagination."--The Nation

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