In this masterful work, the philosopher and cultural theorist, Fredric Jameson, addresses the thinking of the founder of the modern dialectic by offering us an innovative reading of what is part of the substrate of modern western culture, the Phenomenology of the Spirit.
Where other monographs have interpreted phenomenology as a rigid and closed system, in this work Jameson manages to find flexibility and permeability in the famous Hegelian philosophy. That is why Hegelian thinking is discovered less systematic, less mechanical than usual, in which ideas are not reified in the form of pure abstractions.
Completed a few hours before the battle of Jena and the subsequent arrival of Napoleon, the conclusion of the Phenomenology of the spirit of Hegel entails a stagnation, provisional and overcome, of the political and the social - from which Jameson points out essential lessons for our moment .

«Fredric Jameson is the guide of Marxist criticism in the United States. Prodigies and energetic thinker whose writings cover both Sophocles and science fiction. »
Terry Eagleton
«Probably his writings are the most important cultural critics of today. Certainly nothing is alien to them.
Colin MacCabe
«Fredric Jameson preserves and feeds the Marxist legacy for future generations.»
Benjamin Kunkel, London Review of Books
«Hegel's variations cultivate a bold reading of a non-teleological Hegel, sheds light on some characteristic and specific themes, such as master-slave dialectic, linguistic subjectivity, expressive production (" the animal kingdom of the spirit "), figure of Antigone and the French Revolution. »
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