Lucien Goldmann Quotes on Truth
Lucien Goldmann was a Romanian-born French Marxist philosopher and literary theorist and the principal architect of what he called genetic structuralism. This page collects quotes attributed to Lucien Goldmann on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Lucien Goldmann:
“The world view of a class is the matrix of its great cultural works.”
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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:
“Literature is a privileged crystallization of historical consciousness.”
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Attributed to Lucien Goldmann:
“Genetic structuralism reads the work as the work of a collective subject.”
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Attributed to Lucien Goldmann:
“The wager is the form of every authentic faith.”