书名: The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and A Hidden God
作者: Mitchell Cohen (Author)
出版社: Princeton Univ Pr (July 5, 1994)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0691034206
ISBN-13: 978-0691034201
Book Description
In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Mitchell Cohen provides the first full-length study of this major figure of postwar French intellectual life and champion of socialist humanism. 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 structuralist and antihumanist theorizing that infected French left-wing circles in the tumultuous 1960s. Highly regarded by thinkers as diverse as Jean Piaget and Alasdair MacIntyre, Goldmann is shown here as a socialist who, unlike many others of his time, refused to portray his aspirations for humanity's future as an inexorable unfolding of history's laws. He saw these aspirations instead as a wager akin to Pascal's in the existence of God. "Risk," Goldmann wrote in his classic study of Pascal and Racine, The Hidden God, "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." In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Cohen retrieves Goldmann's achievement--his "genetic structuralist" method, his sociology of literature, his libertarian socialist politics.
Review
"Goldmann (1913-70) was a major French Socialist writer and thinker of the postwar period. Though nominally an adherent of Marxism, he was critical of many of its views, and he wrote extensively on the boundaries between literature and sociology. Cohen's book is partly biographical (Part 1 focuses on Goldmann's life and intellectual development), partly analytical (Part 2 delineates his philosophical background; Part 3, his own thought). What emerges is a portrait of a brilliant mind at work, grappling with the problems of human existence and our place in history. Though Goldmann has been criticized at times for obscurity and for his dependence on Marxist terminology, his contribution to 20th-century thought is evident. A welcome addition to any collection containing Goldmann's works or emphasizing Western European intellectual history." -- Terry Skeats, Bishop's Univ., Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada, Library Journal
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作者: Mitchell Cohen (Author)
出版社: Princeton Univ Pr (July 5, 1994)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0691034206
ISBN-13: 978-0691034201
Book Description
In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Mitchell Cohen provides the first full-length study of this major figure of postwar French intellectual life and champion of socialist humanism. 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 structuralist and antihumanist theorizing that infected French left-wing circles in the tumultuous 1960s. Highly regarded by thinkers as diverse as Jean Piaget and Alasdair MacIntyre, Goldmann is shown here as a socialist who, unlike many others of his time, refused to portray his aspirations for humanity's future as an inexorable unfolding of history's laws. He saw these aspirations instead as a wager akin to Pascal's in the existence of God. "Risk," Goldmann wrote in his classic study of Pascal and Racine, The Hidden God, "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." In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Cohen retrieves Goldmann's achievement--his "genetic structuralist" method, his sociology of literature, his libertarian socialist politics.
Review
"Goldmann (1913-70) was a major French Socialist writer and thinker of the postwar period. Though nominally an adherent of Marxism, he was critical of many of its views, and he wrote extensively on the boundaries between literature and sociology. Cohen's book is partly biographical (Part 1 focuses on Goldmann's life and intellectual development), partly analytical (Part 2 delineates his philosophical background; Part 3, his own thought). What emerges is a portrait of a brilliant mind at work, grappling with the problems of human existence and our place in history. Though Goldmann has been criticized at times for obscurity and for his dependence on Marxist terminology, his contribution to 20th-century thought is evident. A welcome addition to any collection containing Goldmann's works or emphasizing Western European intellectual history." -- Terry Skeats, Bishop's Univ., Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada, Library Journal
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