Valences of the Dialectic

New York & London: Verso, 2009. Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket (light shelfwear). NO chips, tears or fading. NOT price clipped ($49.95 / £29.99). Square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2009. First printing of the First Edition with complete number row (13579 10 8642) on the copyright page. Footnotes. Index. Bound in the original black-stamped pale yellow boards. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "A comprehensive analysis of the philosophy of the dialectic by the doyen of cultural criticism. After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through conflicts arising from its inherent contradictions, transformed two centuries of Western philosophy. To Hegel, who dominated nineteenth-century thought, it was a metaphysical system. In the works of Marx, the dialectic became a tool for materialist historical analysis. Jameson brings a theoretical scrutiny to bear on the questions that have arisen in the history of this philosophical tradition, contextualizing the debate in terms of commodification and globalization, and with reference to thinkers such as Rousseau, Lukács, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, and Althusser. Through rigorous, erudite examination, Valences of the Dialectic charts a movement toward the innovation of a spatial dialectic. Jameson presents a new synthesis of thought that revitalizes dialectical thinking for the twenty-first century.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xxxiii, 2. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.