Lucien Goldmann
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Lucien Goldmann | |
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Born | EHESS | 20 July 1913
Main interests | Epistemology, sociology |
Notable ideas | Genetic structuralism |
Lucien Goldmann (French:
Biography
Goldmann was born in
Through Jean Piaget's intervention, he was subsequently given a scholarship to the University of Zurich,[1] 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]
In 1968, Goldmann was a visiting professor at Columbia University.[3]
Philosophy
While many Parisian leftists staunchly upheld Marxism's "
He refused to portray his aspirations for humanity's future as an inexorable unfolding of history's laws, but saw them rather as a
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.[5]
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).
- "Is there a Marxist Sociology?". International Socialism 34. London. 1968.
- 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),
Notes and references
- ^ a b c d Martin Jay, Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas, University of California Press, 1984, pp. 305–06.
- ISBN 1-4051-3217-5.
- ISBN 978-1-63424-044-4.
- S2CID 145394433.
- ^ Lucien Goldmann, a Dictionary of Sociology, Encyclopedia.com; accessed 3 July 2020.
Further reading
- Cohen, Mitchell: The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and a Hidden God, Princeton University Press, 1994