Beverley Best.Strangers in the night: The unlikely conjunction of Fredric Jameson and Ernesto Laclau. RM 11(3):1-19 "The writings of Laclau and Jameson are compared to overcome the reified opposition between Marxism and post-Marxism. Rather than concentrate on the differences in Laclau's and Jameson's theoretical orientations, areas of convergence in their theoretical positions are studied. Several themes viewed as convergent in the two men's respective works are identified: the notion of immanence; the treatment of utopian thought; the relationship between structure and agency; similar reactions to Jacques Derrida's (1994) notion of spectrality; and the persistence of utopian thought and the failure to resolve the tension between the perception of utopia as universal or particular. In addition, it is contended that Jameson's (1988, 1991) notion of totality and Laclau's (1990) concept of contingency possess similarities, and both thinkers exhibit a similar understanding of ideology. 17 References. J. W. Parker, Sociological Abstracts."