Le dieu caché. Etude sur la vision tragique dans le Pensees de Pascal et dans le théâtre de Racine par Lucien Goldmann

Le dieu caché.
Etude sur la vision tragique dans le Pensees de Pascal et dans le théâtre de Racine
par Lucien Goldmann

Google translation: The Hidden God. Study on the tragic vision in the Pensees of Pascal and in the theater of Racine.
by Lucien Goldmann.

Paris: Librairie Gallimard
First edition, 1955.

SIGNED and inscribed by Goldmann to Gaston Berger on the front page: "Pour Monsieur Gaston Berger, hommages respectueux de Lucien Goldmann, Paris, le 29 Mars 1956"

Condition: Paperback, with some minor edge wear, and light scuffing, faint pencil notes on upper front cover, some relatively discreet document repair tape along spine edges. Title page has the bookplate of Edouard Morot-Sir. The book remains uncut along upper and fore-edges. Includes a loose page of errata. Back page does have pencil notes, otherwise interior appears to be clean. Binding remains secure.

wiki: "Lucien Goldmann (20 July 1913 – 8 October 1970) was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. A professor at the EHESS in Paris, he was a Marxist theorist. His wife was sociologist Annie Goldmann. / He refused to portray his aspirations for humanity's future as an inexorable unfolding of history's laws, but saw them rather as a wager akin to Blaise Pascal's in the existence of God. "Risk", Goldmann wrote in his classic study of Pascal's Pensées and Jean Racine's Phèdre, "is possibility of failure, hope of success, and the synthesis of the three in a faith which is a wager are the essential constituent elements of the human condition". He called his work "dialectical" and "humanist". He sought to synthesize the genetic epistemology of Piaget with the Marxism of György Lukács. / Goldmann founded the theory of genetic structuralism in the 1960s. He was a humanist socialist, a disciple of Lukács, and was best known for his sociology of literature. In later life he became an important critic of structuralism.

Gaston Berger (1 October 1896 – 13 November 1960) was a French futurist but also an industrialist, a philosopher and a state manager. He is mainly known for his remarkably lucid analysis of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and for his studies on the character structure. / From 1953 to 1960 he was in charge of the tertiary education at the Minister of National Education and modernised the French universities system. He was elected at the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1955."

societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/edouard-morotsir: Edouard Morot-Sir (1910-1993) was born in Autun and educated in French schools before he entered the French army at the beginning of World War II. He was imprisoned at an internment camp after the German occupation of France, but he later completed a doctorate at the University of Paris (1947), specializing in the history of ideas. / His career moved in new directions during the 1950s, however, when he became director of the Fulbright Commission in France and then (1957-1969) the cultural counselor of the French Embassy in the United States."