The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and a Hidden God

In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Mitchell Cohen provides the first full-length study of this major figure of postwar French intellectual life and champion of socialist humanism. While many Parisian leftists staunchly upheld Marxism’s scientificity in the 1950s and 1960s, Lucien Goldmann insisted that Marxism was by then in severe crisis and had t