The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and a Hidden God

by Mitchell Cohen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691628130
• ISBN13: 9780691628134
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"