Background
Lucien Goldmann was born on July 20, 1913, in Bucharest, Romania.
Bulevardul Regina Elisabeta 4-12, București 030018, Romania
The University of Bucharest where Lucien Goldmann studied.
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
The University of Vienna where Lucien Goldmann studied.
75005 Paris, France
The University of Paris where Lucien Goldmann studied.
Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland
The University of Zurich where Lucien Goldmann received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
(Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness,...)
Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of "world visions" to flesh out the similarities between Pascal’s Pensées and Kant’s critical philosophy, contrasting them with the rationalism of Descartes and the empiricism of Hume.
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-God-Tragic-Pens%C3%A9es-Tragedies/dp/1784784044/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Lucien+Goldmann&qid=1575634477&s=books&sr=1-1
1955
(This text re-issues an important work by Lucien Goldmann,...)
This text re-issues an important work by Lucien Goldmann, based on his university lectures from 1967-8, and first published in English in 1977. It focuses upon two of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, György Lukács and Martin Heidegger, demonstrating the origins of existentialist thought in the implicit connection between the two. This book represents the application of methodology already developed in The Hidden God and also sees Goldmann elaborating the differences between himself and Lukács for the sake of defining his own Marxist perspective.
https://www.amazon.com/Luk%C3%A1cs-Heidegger-Routledge-Revivals-Philosophy/dp/0415552923/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1575634477&sr=1-2
1973
Lucien Goldmann was born on July 20, 1913, in Bucharest, Romania.
Lucien Goldmann attended the University of Vienna and the University of Bucharest. In 1934, he obtained a diploma in public law and political economy from the University of Paris in order to study political economy, literature, and philosophy. Goldmann also studied at the University of Zurich where he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Lucien Goldmann started his career as director of the sociology department at the Free University of Brussels in 1959. He held this post until 1964. Goldmann published his first book Mensch, Gemeinschaft und Welt in der Philosophie Immanuel Kants in 1945. Later he wrote such book as Recherches dialectiques, Pour une sociologie du roman and Epistémologie et philosophie. Many of his books were translated into English.
(Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness,...)
1955(This text re-issues an important work by Lucien Goldmann,...)
1973Lucien Goldmann was a humanist socialist and a disciple of György Lukács. He was profoundly influenced by Lukács' History and Class Consciousness. Goldmann's prime concern was to elucidate and develop the dialectical approach, in opposition to the individualism of bourgeois rationalism and empiricism which has constantly infected the thought of the socialist movement. One of his most important ideologies was "vision du monde" or world view. He wrote about it in his book The Hidden God. According to Goldman God is indeed present, and operates as a "hidden" and silent observer of events.
Quotes from others about the person
Herbert Marcuse: Lucien Goldmann has stated the central problem of Marxist aesthetics in the period of advanced capitalism. If the proletariat is not the negation of the existing society but to a great extent integrated into it, then Marxist aesthetics is confronted with a situation where "authentic forms of cultural creations" exist "though they cannot be attached to the consciousness -even a potential one- of a particular social group." The decisive question therefore is: how the "link is made between the economic structures and literary manifestations in a society where this link occurs outside the collective consciousness, i.e., without being grounded in a progressive class consciousness, without expressing such consciousness?