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Lucien Goldmann
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Goldmann was born in Bucharest, Romania, but grew up in BotoÅani.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} He studied law at the University of Bucharest and the University of Vienna under the Austromarxist jurist Max Adler.Martin Jay, Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas, University of California Press, 1984, pp. 305â06. In 1934, he went to the University of Paris to study political economy, literature, and philosophy. He moved to Switzerland in November 1942, where he was placed in a refugee camp until 1943.Through Jean Piaget's intervention, he was subsequently given a scholarship to the University of Zurich, where he completed his PhD in philosophy in 1945 with a thesis entitled Mensch, Gemeinschaft und Welt in der Philosophie Immanuel Kants (Man, Community and World in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant).{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}In 1968, Goldmann was a visiting professor at Columbia University.BOOK, Estulin, Daniel,weblink Tavistock Institute: Social Engineering the Masses, 2015-09-14, TrineDay, 978-1-63424-044-4, ar,Philosophy
While many Parisian leftists staunchly upheld Marxism's "scientificity" in the 1950s and 1960s, Lucien Goldmann insisted that Marxism was by then in severe crisis and had to reinvent itself radically if it were to survive. He rejected the traditional Marxist view of the proletariat and contested the structural Marxist movement. In fact, the popularity of such trends on the Left Bank was one reason why Goldmann's own name and work were eclipsed â this despite the acclaim of thinkers as diverse as Jean Piaget and Alasdair MacIntyre, who called him "the finest and most intelligent Marxist of the age."{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}He refused to portray his aspirations for humanity's future as an inexorable unfolding of history's laws, but saw them rather as a wager akin to Blaise Pascal's in the existence of God. "Risk", Goldmann wrote in his classic study of Pascal's Pensées and Jean Racine's Phèdre, "is possibility of failure, hope of success, and the synthesis of the three in a faith which is a wager are the essential constituent elements of the human condition". He called his work "dialectical" and "humanist". He sought to synthesize the genetic epistemology of Piaget with the Marxism of György Lukács.JOURNAL,weblink 10.1007/BF01880859, Genetic structuralism and the analysis of social consciousness, 1978, Mayrl, William W., Theory and Society, 5, 19â44, 145394433, Goldmann founded the theory of genetic structuralism in the 1960s. He was a humanist socialist, a disciple of Lukács, and was best known for his sociology of literature. In later life he became an important critic of structuralism.Lucien Goldmann, a Dictionary of Sociology, Encyclopedia.com; accessed 3 July 2020.Selected bibliography
In German
- Mensch, Gemeinschaft und Welt in der Philosophie Immanuel Kants (University of Zurich, 1945). Doctoral thesis.
In French
- Le dieu caché; étude sur la vision tragique dans les Pensées de Pascal et dans le théâtre de Racine. Paris: Gallimard, 1955.
- Recherches dialectiques. Paris: Gallimard, 1959.
- Pour une sociologie du roman. Paris: Gallimard, 1964.
- Sciences humaines et philosophie. Suivi de structuralisme génétique et création littéraire. Paris: Gonthier, 1966.
- Structures mentales et création culturelle. Paris: 10/18, 1970.
- Epistémologie et philosophie. Paris: Denoël, 1970.
- Lukacs et Heidegger. Paris: Denoël-Gonthier, 1973.
English translations
- The Hidden God: a study of tragic vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the tragedies of Racine. Trans. Philip Thody. London: Routledge, 1964.
- Immanuel Kant. Translated from the French and German by Robert Black. (London: New Left Books, 1971; Verso, 2011).
- NEWS, Is there a Marxist Sociology?,weblink 1968, International Socialism 34, London,
- The Human Sciences and Philosophy. London: Jonathan Cape, 1973.
- The Philosophy of Enlightenment. Trans. Henry Maas. London: Routledge, 1973.
- Towards a Sociology of the Novel. 1964. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1975.
- "The Epistemology of Sociology". Telos 18 (Winter 1976-77). New York: Telos Press
- Cultural Creation in Modern Society Introduction by William Maryl and Translated by Bart Grahl (New York: Telos Press, 1976).
- Essays on Method in the Sociology of Literature Translated and edited by William Q. Boelhower (New York: Telos Press, 1979).
- "Genet's The Balcony: A Realist Play." Trans. Robert Sayre. Praxis: A Journal of Radical Perspectives on the Arts 4 (1978): 123-131. Trans. of "Une Pièce réaliste: Le Balcon de Genet" in Les Temps Modernes 171 (June 1960).
- (Lukacs and Heidegger: Towards a New Philosophy). Trans. William Q. Boelhower. London: Routledge, 2009.
Reviews
Womack, Peter (1982), Benjamin, Eagleton and Goldmann, which includes a review of Essays on Method in the Sociology of Literature, in Murray, Glen (ed.). Cencrastus No. 8, Spring 1982, pp. 47 & 48, {{issn|0264-0856}}.Notes and references
{{reflist}}Further reading
- Cohen, Mitchell: The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and a Hidden God, Princeton University Press, 1994
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