The Hidden God: A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine - Hardcover

Lucien Goldmann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781689768 ISBN 13: 9781781689769

Publisher: Verso Books, 2016

Synopsis

First published in 1964, this classic text uses the concept of world visions, first elaborated in the early work of Georg Lukàcs, as a tool whereby the similarities between Pascals Pensées and Kants critical philosophy are contrasted with the rationalism of Descartes and the empiricism of Hume. For Lucien Goldmann, a leading exponent of the most fruitful method of applying Marxist ideas to literary and philosophical problems, the tragic vision marked an important phase in the development of European thought from rationalism and empiricism to the dialectical philosophy of Hegel, Marx and Lukàcs. Here he offers a general approach to the problems of philosophy, of literary criticism, and of the relationship between thought and action in human society.

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About the Author

Lucien Goldmann was a French philosopher of Jewish-Romanian origin. As a professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, he was an influential Marxist theorist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781689768
• ISBN 13: 9781781689769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448