Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the issue of post-modernism, gathers in this essential volume his strongest writings on the culture of late capitalism. A classic overview of pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture accompanies these essays on the position of history, theory, Marxism, and the subject in an age driven by financial capital and the endless spectacle.

Examining the controversies sparked by his earlier essays, Jameson responds to critics and lays bare the theoretical positions of key friends and foes of postmodernism.

"As they explode, like fireworks in the night sky, the texts of Fredric Jameson illuminate the darkness-enshrouded landscape of the postmodern. [...] The Cultural Turn offers the most dense and complete summary on the subject." (Perry Anderson)

"Perhaps the most important Anglophone theorist of cultural criticism today. [...] We can truly say that nothing pertaining to culture is foreign to him." (Colin MacCabe)