Goldmann's Legacy

The categories of totality and coherence were central to Goldmann's thought. He refused any explanation not founded on these categories — even concerning his own world view. That is why an analysis of his political conceptions is impossible without reference to these fundamental ideas. He was a man who situated his thought in the dialectical “tradition” of Hegel, Marx and Lukacs. But this filiation does not reveal Goldmann's specific contribution. To reply to this modesty of the author of The Hidden Cod is to resolve the question of what is original in his thought. Goldmann discovered Lukacs through History and Class Consciousness in Vienna in 1933, at the same time he encountered Austro-Marxism (Bauer, Renner, Hilferding, Max and Friedrich Adler)

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