The Hidden God: A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensées of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine

A new edition of a major philosophical work

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.

Author: Lucien Goldmann
Publisher: Verso
Published: 07/12/2016
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781784784041
ISBN10: 1784784044
BISAC Categories:
- Reference | General
- Philosophy | Religious
- Religion | Philosophy

About the Author
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 Löwy 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.