The Hidden God A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine |
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Author:
| Goldmann, Lucien |
Series title: | Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-134-04830-4 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $51.95 |
Book Description:
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The concept of 'world visions', first elaborated in the early work of Georg Lukàcs, is used here as a tool whereby the similarities between Pascal's Pensées and Kant's critical philosophy are contrasted with the rationalism of Descartes and the empiricism of Hume. For Lucien Goldmann, a leading exponent of the most fruitful method of applying Marxist ideas to literary and philosophical problems, the 'tragic vision'nbsp;marked an important phase in the development of European...
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The concept of 'world visions', first elaborated in the early work of Georg Lukàcs, is used here as a tool whereby the similarities between Pascal's Pensées and Kant's critical philosophy are contrasted with the rationalism of Descartes and the empiricism of Hume. For Lucien Goldmann, a leading exponent of the most fruitful method of applying Marxist ideas to literary and philosophical problems, the 'tragic vision'nbsp;marked an important phase in the development of European thought from rationalism and empiricism to the dialectical philosophy of Hegel, Marx and Lukàcs.nbsp;The book is not a collection of isolated essays on Kant, Pascal, Racine, the status of the legal nobility in seventeenth-century France and the exact nature of the religious movement known as Jansenism, but an attempt to formulate, by an examination of these different topics, a general approach to the problems of philosophy, of literary criticism, and of the relationship between thought and action in human society.