The Holberg Prize Academic Committee stated: "Fredric R. Jameson has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of the relation between social formations and cultural forms in a project he himself describes as the "poetics of social forms". His work combines profound theoretical and philosophical ideas with painstaking fidelity to particular cultural objects." (...) "His research explores an unusually wide variety of different cultural objects from a broad geographical range. (...) "Famous for his dictum "Always historicize!" Fredric R. Jameson understands the cultural artifact within the context of a given social and historical formation, while reorienting the tradition of Western Marxist cultural theory." (...) "Fredric R. Jameson's most lasting contribution to cultural analysis may be his account of postmodernism and postmodernity." (...) "Widely translated, Fredric R. Jameson's work has had extraordinary global impact, not only in Europe and North America but, to an unusual degree, also in Asia."
The Holberg Prize, which was established by the Norwegian Parliament in 2003, is awarded annually by the Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund. Holberg Prize is for outstanding scholarly work in the academic fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The award ceremony takes place 26. November 2008 in Bergen, Norway. Holberg Prize Laureates: Fredric R. Jameson (2008), Ronald Dworkin (2007), Shmuel N. Eisenstadt (2006), Jürgen Habermas (2005), Julia Kristeva (2004).
The Holberg Prize, which was established by the Norwegian Parliament in 2003, is awarded annually by the Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund. Holberg Prize is for outstanding scholarly work in the academic fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The award ceremony takes place 26. November 2008 in Bergen, Norway. Holberg Prize Laureates: Fredric R. Jameson (2008), Ronald Dworkin (2007), Shmuel N. Eisenstadt (2006), Jürgen Habermas (2005), Julia Kristeva (2004).
Professor Fredric Jameson. Photo: Holberg Prize/Andrea Friestad Nyland.