ALLEGORY AND IDEOLOGY

Book ID/图书代码： 13850019C00011

English Summary/英文概要： Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as solving them!) The inevitable and welcome conflict of interpretations - a discursive, ideological struggle - therefore needs to be supplemented by an account of this simultaneous processing of multiple meanings, rather than an abandonment to liberal pluralisms and tolerant (or intolerant) relativisms. This is not a book about "method", but it does propose a dialectic capable of holding together in one breath the heterogeneities that reflect our biological individualities, our submersion in collective history and class struggle, and our alienation to a disembodied new world of information and abstraction. Eschewing the arid secularities of philosophy, Walter Benjamin once recommended the alternative of the rich figurality of an older theology; in that spirit we here return to the antiquated Ptolemaic systems of ancient allegory and its multiple levels (a proposal first sketched out in The Political Unconscious); it is tested against the epic complexities of the overtly allegorical works of Dante, Spenser and the Goethe of Faust II, as well as symphonic form in music, and the structure of the novel, postmodern as well as Third-World: about which a notorious essay on National Allegory is here reprinted with a theoretical commentary; and an allegorical history of emotion is meanwhile rehearsed from its contemporary, geopolitical context.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作品並不擁有意義，而是吸取意義：一部作品就像是一個用欲力投注（libidinal investments）運作的機器，這當中也包含了政治性的欲力投注。這是一種將非共通性和矛盾處分類收攏的過程。在這個解讀作品的過程中，衝突是不可避免的，甚至是受歡迎的──這種話語和意識型態的鬥爭──因此需要透過同時處理多重涵義來補充，而非臣服於自由的多元主義以及寬容（或不寬容的）相對主義。這不是一本關於「方法」的書，但它確實提出了一種可能的辯證，使我們可以將反映出我們生理差異、我們在集體歷史和階級鬥爭中的消融以及我們的異質性等全都一口氣收攏在一起，以迎來一個屬於訊息與抽象的「去身體化」（disembodied）的新世界。(Zoe)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 詹明信，杜克大學比較文學教授，北美最重要的馬克思主義理論家、文化批評家之一。他花了三十年的時間發展了關於西方文化與政治經濟間的關係的論述，他在2008年獲得了霍爾堡國際紀念獎，他的著作包括：Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism（《後現代主義或晚期資本主義的文化邏輯》）、The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital等等。

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture’s relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.

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