Lucien Goldmann

Lucien Goldmann (July 20, 1913 – October 8, 1970) was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. As a professor at the EHESS in Paris, he was an influential Marxist theorist. He was born in Bucharest, Romania, grew up in Botoşani, and died in Paris.

Literature

Books by Goldmann

• Mensch, Gemeinschaft und Welt in der Philosophie Immanuel Kants. Studien zur Geschichte der Dialektik., Zürich and New York: Europa, 1945. (in German). Doctoral thesis presented to the University of Zürich.
  • La Communauté humaine et l'Univers chez Kant. Etudes sur la pensée dialectique et son histoire, Paris: PUF, 1948; rev.ed. as Introduction à la Philosophie de Kant, Paris: Gallimard, 1967. (in French)
  • Immanuel Kant, trans. Robert Black, London: New Left Books, 1971.
• Sciences humaines et philosophie, Paris: PUF, 1952; Paris: Gonthier, 1966; Paris: Gonthier, 1971. (in French)
  • The Human Sciences and Philosophy, trans. Hayden V. White and Robert Anchor, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964.
  • Humanitní vědy a filosofie, Prague: Svoboda, 1966. (in Czech)
• Le Dieu caché. Etude sur la vision tragique dans les 'Pensées' de Pascal et dans le théâtre de Racine, Paris: Gallimard, 1955. (in French). Dissertation presented to the University de Paris.
  • The Hidden God: A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensées of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine, trans. Philip Thody, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964; New York: Humanities Press, 1964.
  • Der verborgene Gott, Neuwied: Luchterhand 1973. (in German)
• Editor, Correspondance de Martin de Barcos, Abbé de Saint-Cryan, avec les abbesses de Port-Royal et les principaux personnages du groupe janséniste, Paris: PUF, 1956. (in French). Complementary thesis for the Doctor of Letters, edited and presented by Goldmann to the Faculty des Lettres de l’Université de Paris.
• Jean Racine, dramaturge, Paris: L’Arche, 1956; new ed. as Racine, Paris: L’Arche, 1970. (in French)
  • Racine, trans. Alastair Hamilton, intro. Raymond Williams, Cambridge: Rivers Press, 1969.
• Recherches dialectiques, Paris: Gallimard, 1959. (in French). A collection of articles written or published between 1942-59.
  • Dialektische Untersuchungen, Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1966. (in German)
  • Διαλεκτικές Έρευνες, trans. Papagiorgis Kostis, Athens: Γνώση, 1986. (in Greek)
• Pour une sociologie du roman, Paris: Gallimard, 1964; Paris: Gallimard, 1965; Paris: Gallimard, 1973. (in French)
  • Para una sociologia de la novela, trans. Jaime Ballesteros and Gregorio Ortiz, Ciencia Nueva, 1967; 2nd ed., Madrid: Ayuso, 1975. (in Spanish)
  • Soziologie des modernen Romans, Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1970. (in German)
  • Towards a Sociology of the Novel, trans. Alan Sheridan, London: Tavistock, 1975.
• Die christliche Bürger und die Aufklärung, Hermann Luchterhand, 1968. (in German)
  • The Philosophy of the Enlightenment: The Christian Burgess and the Enlightenment, trans. Henry Maas, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973; MIT Press, 1973.
• Structures mentales et création culturelle, Paris: Anthropos, 1970. (in French)
• Marxisme et sciences humaines, Paris: Gallimard, 1970. (in French)
• Situation de la critique racinienne, Paris: L’Arche, 1971. (in French)
• La Création culturelle dans la société moderne, Paris: Denoël Gonthier, 1971. (in French)
  • Cultural Creation in Modern Society, trans. Bart Grahl, intro. William Mayrl, Telos Press, 1976; Oxford: Basil Blackwell & Mott, 1977. [1]
• Lukàcs et Heidegger. Fragments posthumes établis et presentés par Youssef Ishaghpour, Paris: Denoël, 1973. (in French)
  • Lukàks e Heidegger, Verona: Bertani, 1976. (in Italian)
  • Lukács und Heidegger, Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1975. (in German)
  • Lukács y Heidegger. Hacia una filosofía nueva, trans. Jose Luis Etcheverry, Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 1977. (in Spanish)
• Essays on Method in the Sociology of Literature, trans. & ed. William Q. Boelhower, St. Louis: Telos Press, 1980.

Bibliographies

• Eduard Tell, "Bibliographie de Lucien Goldmann", Revue de l'Institut de Sociologie 3-4 (1973), Brussels.
• "Lucien Goldmann: A Bibliography", compiled by Ileana Rodriguez and Marc Zimmermann, in Cultural Creation in Modern Society, 1977, pp 146-173.

Books on Goldmann

• Mitchell Cohen, The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and a Hidden God, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Goldmann