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Abstract
Focusing on the interplay of religion and Utopia in Fredric Jameson's recent Archaeologies of the Future, I identify a tension: on the one hand, the content of religion has been superseded (although not its forms), yet, on the other, Jameson still wishes to make use of a hermeneutics of suspicion and recovery in which even the most retrograde material may be recuperated—religion included. So we find a clash underway in this work. Sometimes Jameson sidelines religion, as one would expect if religion was no longer relevant. At other times, he exercises his dialectical hermeneutics, particularly at two moments: first, a recovery, via Feuerbach, of the role of magic within fantasy literature; second, the partial treatment of apocalyptic, which comes very close to his own argument for Utopia as rupture. From here, I develop the dialectic of ideology and Utopia further by expanding Jameson's comments on the possibilities of medieval theology and the utopian role of religion (both Catholic and Protestant) in More's Utopia.

The present paper is about the notable literary and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson, who has been contributing continuously in the field of literary theory. This paper presents Jameson's distinctive vision of western culture's relation to political economy. He has meaningfully contributing to the domains of post structuralism and postmodernism. After 1983, Jameson turned his attention to the culture of late capitalism. Here, an effort is to understand the notions and concerns of Jameson and the development in his ideas. His oeuvre can be dividing into three parts. This paper charts his exploration of capitalism in the mode of economic production, where postmodernity is an unchallenged, a long voyage of capitalism. This also helps to understand Jameson's distinctive view of dialectic and its role in understanding certain concepts in its unfashionable time. It may possibly underscore the major thematic concerns in his oeuvre.