The Hidden God
A Study of Tragic Vision in the 'Pensees' of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine
Published on 12. July 2016
464 pages
978-1-78478-405-8 (ISBN)
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This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael L¿wy, a work of "remarkable richness." Drawing on Georg Luk¿cs' History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of "world visions" to flesh out the similarities between Pascal's Pens¿es and Kant's critical philosophy, contrasting them with the rationalism of Descartes and the empiricism of Hume.
For 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, as it moved from rationalism and empiricism to the dialectical philosophy of Hegel, Marx and Luk¿cs. 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.
For 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, as it moved from rationalism and empiricism to the dialectical philosophy of Hegel, Marx and Luk¿cs. 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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English
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London
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
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A Study of Tragic Vision in the 'Pensees' of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine
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Lucien Goldmann was a French philosopher and sociologist 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.
Michael L¿wy is Research Director of Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. His previous books include Redemption and Utopia: Liberation Judaism in Central Europe, Marxism in Latin America and The War of the Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America.
Michael L¿wy is Research Director of Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. His previous books include Redemption and Utopia: Liberation Judaism in Central Europe, Marxism in Latin America and The War of the Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part One: The Tragic Vision
- I: The Whole and the Parts
- II: The Tragic Vision: God
- III: The Tragic Vision: The World
- IV: The Tragic Vision: Man
- Part Two: The Social and Intellectual Basis of the Tragic Vision in Seventeenth-century France
- V: World Visions and Social Classes
- VI: Jansenism and the 'Noblesse de Robe'
- VII: Jansenism and the Tragic Vision
- Part Three: Pascal
- VIII: The Man. The Meaning of his Life
- IX: Paradox and Fragment
- X: Man and the Human Condition
- XI: Living Beings and Space
- XII: Epistemology
- XIII: Ethics and Aesthetics
- XIV: Social Life: Justice, Power and Wealth
- XV: The Wager.
- XVI: The Christian Religion
- Part Four: Racine
- XVII: Tragic Vision in Racine's Theatre
- A. The Tragedies of Refusal
- I. Andromaque
- II. Britannicus
- III. Bérénice
- B. The Dramas of this World
- IV. Bajazet
- V. Mithridate and Iphigénie
- C. Tragedies with Peripeteia and Recognition
- VI. Phèdre
- D. The Sacred Dramas
- VII. Esther and Athalie
- Appendices
- A. Biographical Problems
- B. Main Events in the Life of Blaise Pascal
- C. Notes on Some of the Main Characters Closely Connected with the Jansenist Movement in France
- D. Notes on Some of the Main Events in the History of Jansenism and of Port-Royal
- E. A Note on the Historical Terms Used in Chapter VI
- Notes
- Index
