Lucien Goldmann Quotes
Lucien Goldmann was a Romanian-born French Marxist philosopher and literary theorist and the principal architect of what he called genetic structuralism. After early studies in Bucharest and Vienna and a long apprenticeship as the literary secretary of the young Lukacs, he settled in Paris, where he held positions at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and at the Institute of Sociology of Brussels. The quotes below are attributed to Lucien Goldmann, organized by topic.
Lucien Goldmann on God
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Attributed to Lucien Goldmann:
“Pascal's tragic vision rests on the Jansenist refusal of compromise.”
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Attributed to Lucien Goldmann:
“The wager is the form of every authentic faith.”
Lucien Goldmann on Knowledge
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Attributed to Lucien Goldmann:
“Genetic structuralism reads the work as the work of a collective subject.”
Lucien Goldmann on Politics
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Attributed to Lucien Goldmann:
“The world view of a class is the matrix of its great cultural works.”
Lucien Goldmann on Truth
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Attributed to Lucien Goldmann:
“Literature is a privileged crystallization of historical consciousness.”