Jameson and Deconstruction

[Paul Mackin]

Didn't someone broach subject of deconstruction and Marxism. Anyway I was
curious and looked in _Postmodernism: or, the Cultural Logic of Late
Capitalism_ (1991). Jameson seems far more interested in DeMan than
Derrida. Likes him a lot and now I remember where I read the defense of
Antwerpian DeMan against the charge of antisemitism. J does a bit of a
decontruction of his own on that one and says it's ironic that "DeMan's
pedagogy, so remarkable in other respects, should have left his students
singularly ill-prepared to confront this type of political and historical
issue." 

Elsewhere in the book in a discussion of another theory, new historicism,
Jameson implies that the generally recognized truth of the statement
"socialism doesn't work" might need some theorizing.

		P.