(P/B) THE HIDDEN GOD

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This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Lowy, a work of "remarkable richness." Drawing on Georg Lukacs' 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 Lukacs. 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. (From the publisher)

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Foreword by Michael Lowy
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
B. THE DRAMAS OF THIS WORLD
C. TRAGEDIES WITH PERIPETEIA AND RECOGNITION
D. THE SACRED DRAMAS
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