On Fredric Jameson's Postmodern Theories

This thesis focuses on Fredric Jameson's postmodern theories from the viewpoint of Marxist philosophy and modern cultural philosophy. This paper includes such contents as the origin of postmodern, the cultural characters of postmodern, the theories of cultural politics and the difference of opinions with other thinkers.At first, I have pointed out that the theories that Mandel Ernest on the history of Capitalism, especially on late Capitalism, Raymond Williams on prevalent culture and Marxist on the mode of production are the base of Jameson's postmodern theories. So,Jameson draws an important conclusion that postmodernism is the cultural logic of late Capitalism.Then, I study Jameson's postmodern theories and give prominent to his critic on postmodernism. The nuclear in his postmodern theories is the question of dominant consciousness in space and as a matter of fact, postmodernism is the certain cultural form of the dominant consciousness in space. It takes on some peculiar cultural presentation and philosophical features. The termination of Jameson's theories is the theory of cultural politics and it is determined by the condition of the dominant consciousness in space. Cultural politics theory includes three questions, that is theory on political unconsciousness, theory on cognitive mapping and theory of the third world.In order to deepen comprehension, I have compared Jameson's theories with other such thinkers'as Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault. Jameson's opinions diverge greatly with them about the questions of meta-narrative and totality, consciousness and unconsciousness, the opinion on history and power Jameson not only has upheld the principle of historical consciousness and totality but also contributed to the development of Marxist theories on history. We can't underestimate his contribution to the modern philosophy.