A compilation of Goldmann's essays on method in the sociology of literature, such as:
- Subject and Object in the Human Science
- The Epistemology of Sociology
- The Concept of Significant Structure in the History of Culture
- The Social Structure and the CollectiveC onsciousneess of Structure
- The Subject of The Cultural Creation
- Theses on the Use of the Concept 'World View' in the history of Philosophy
- Sociological and Cultural Denunciation
- Genetic Structuralism and Stylistic Analysis
Author
Lucien Goldmann was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. A professor at the EHESS in Paris, he was a Marxist theorist. Goldmann was born in Bucharest, Romania, but grew up in Botoşani. He studied law at the University of Bucharest and the University of Vienna under the Austromarxist jurist Max Adler.[1] In 1934, he went to the University of Paris to study political economy, literature, and philosophy.[1] He moved to Switzerland in November 1942, where he was placed in a refugee camp until 1943.[1] Through Jean Piaget's intervention, he was subsequently given a scholarship to the University of Zurich,[1] where he completed his PhD in philosophy in 1945 with a thesis entitled Mensch, Gemeinschaft und Welt in der Philosophie Immanuel Kants (Man, Community and world in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant).
