La dialéctica

This is an unforgivably old book. It is about the hardly new treatment that a veteran (Fredric Jameson, Cleveland, 1934) makes of a very archaic idea (the dialectic, Athens, 4th century BC). Everything, then, very demodé. In the boisterous heat of post-theory, we are invited today to return to things themselves (to bodies, places, affections, traumas, memories) in a display of phenomenology and positivism impudently bound to the ideological demands of the world. increasingly local power that subsidizes research. Evoke, in this context, the dialectical passion of Fredric Jameson supposes to conjure a distant horizon of speculative reflection where, under Sartre's divergent and totalizing strabismus, the negative dialectic of critical theory (Adorno) and the differential compulsion of a certain strong theory converge. (Derrida, Deleuze). Dialectics reminds us that the conjectural fantasy of concepts extends between words and things. A remote fantasy, but perhaps legitimate.