Hegel Variations

In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text "The Phenomenology of Spirit". In contrast to those who see The Phenomenology as a closed system ending with Absolute Spirit, Jameson's reading presents an open work in which Hegel has not yet reconstituted himself in terms of a systematic philosophy ...

In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text "The Phenomenology of Spirit". In contrast to those who see The Phenomenology as a closed system ending with Absolute Spirit, Jameson's reading presents an open work in which Hegel has not yet reconstituted himself in terms of a systematic philosophy (Hegelianism) and in which the moments of the dialectic and its levels have not yet been formalized. The ending, on the aftermath of the French Revolution, is interpreted by Jameson as a provisional stalemate between the political and the social, which is here extrapolated to our own time.

詹姆逊（F.R.Jameson），当代美国著名的西方马克思主义理论家、批评家，美国杜克大学比较文学和批评理论讲座教授，因其具有重大社会影响和学术影响而被誉为“引导了美国人文学科的方向”。近年来致力于讨论现代主义、后现代主义和全球化问题，特别注意辩证法和乌托邦的研究，其著述成为相关研究的必读书。对中国知识界和思想界有着重大影响，20世纪80年代在北京大学的系列演讲“后现代主义和文化理论”，至今依然是中国学者理解“后现代主义”的主要理论依据；他提出的第三世界文学的“民族寓言”问题，直接影响了中国现当代文学研究的阐释构架；他的著作在中国知识界和思想界拥有广大读者。