Goldmann

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Lucien Goldmann mainly in connection with Michel Clouscard, presenting him as Clouscard's friend and one of his first allies. He places him among the authors read with Clouscard and among the few influences Clouscard acknowledges1. What he takes from him is a Marxism attentive to everyday lived experience, one that links relations of production to ordinary life and whose method inspires Clouscard2. He often returns to The Hidden God, which he calls a masterpiece: a study of the age of Pascal, Racine and the Jansenists, and of their Deus absconditus, present through its absence3. He draws on this theme when discussing Nerval and Kafka4. In a preface devoted to the critique of neo-Kantianism in Clouscard, he also credits Goldmann with a genetic structuralism that accounts for how structures are generated, starting from the notion of totality5. Finally, when discussing worldliness in Clouscard, he alludes to Goldmann's work on Pascal and the Jansenists while stating that one must wager on the working class.

1. 19 #16 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?4 Mar 2021 · 1:04:29
2. 2EVERYTHING'S ALLOWED, BUT NOTHING IS POSSIBLE! Michel Clouscard, May 68, French Theory & Capitalism14 Jul 2021 · 25:54
3. 3#4.6 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 1:53:58
4. 4#5.9 Kafka Un message impérial29 Jul 2019 · 39:04
5. 5Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 6:17

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