Mitchell Cohen, co-editor of Dissent magazine, is Professor of Political Science at Baruch College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is the author of Zion and State (Blackwell/Columbia) and editor of Rebels and Reactionaries (Dell). During 1993-94, he was National Endowment for the Humantities Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

"Without question one of the most stimulating works in intellectual history and theory to appear in the last two decades... In examining the origins of Goldmann's ideas, the theorist's preoccupations ... and the enduring significance of his work, Cohen demonstrates a rare, broad-ranging mastery of theory and an ability, like that of Goldmann himself, to uncover the essential historical and social message located within the works of an individual author."--Choice

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on Titles, Abbreviations, and Language in the TextIntroduction: Eppur si muove?3Pt. 1Genesis1A Youth in Romania152Homeless40Pt. 2The Philosophical Background3A Short History of Method654Lukacs, Marxism, and Method92Pt. 3Faithful Heresy, Tragic Dialectician5The Dialectics of Lucien Goldmann1176From a Hidden God to the Human Condition1547Existentialism, Marxism, Structuralism2018The Hidden Class: Goldmann's Unwritten Politics2509Between Yes and No283Abbreviations Used in the Notes291Notes293Select Bibliography331Index343

Mitchell Cohen, co-editor of Dissent magazine, is Professor of Political Science at Baruch College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is the author of Zion and State (Blackwell/Columbia) and editor of Rebels and Reactionaries (Dell). During 1993-94, he was National Endowment for the Humantities Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

"Without question one of the most stimulating works in intellectual history and theory to appear in the last two decades... In examining the origins of Goldmann's ideas, the theorist's preoccupations ... and the enduring significance of his work, Cohen demonstrates a rare, broad-ranging mastery of theory and an ability, like that of Goldmann himself, to uncover the essential historical and social message located within the works of an individual author."--Choice

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on Titles, Abbreviations, and Language in the TextIntroduction: Eppur si muove?3Pt. 1Genesis1A Youth in Romania152Homeless40Pt. 2The Philosophical Background3A Short History of Method654Lukacs, Marxism, and Method92Pt. 3Faithful Heresy, Tragic Dialectician5The Dialectics of Lucien Goldmann1176From a Hidden God to the Human Condition1547Existentialism, Marxism, Structuralism2018The Hidden Class: Goldmann's Unwritten Politics2509Between Yes and No283Abbreviations Used in the Notes291Notes293Select Bibliography331Index343

Mitchell Cohen, co-editor of Dissent magazine, is Professor of Political Science at Baruch College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is the author of Zion and State (Blackwell/Columbia) and editor of Rebels and Reactionaries (Dell). During 1993-94, he was National Endowment for the Humantities Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

"Without question one of the most stimulating works in intellectual history and theory to appear in the last two decades... In examining the origins of Goldmann's ideas, the theorist's preoccupations ... and the enduring significance of his work, Cohen demonstrates a rare, broad-ranging mastery of theory and an ability, like that of Goldmann himself, to uncover the essential historical and social message located within the works of an individual author."--Choice

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on Titles, Abbreviations, and Language in the TextIntroduction: Eppur si muove?3Pt. 1Genesis1A Youth in Romania152Homeless40Pt. 2The Philosophical Background3A Short History of Method654Lukacs, Marxism, and Method92Pt. 3Faithful Heresy, Tragic Dialectician5The Dialectics of Lucien Goldmann1176From a Hidden God to the Human Condition1547Existentialism, Marxism, Structuralism2018The Hidden Class: Goldmann's Unwritten Politics2509Between Yes and No283Abbreviations Used in the Notes291Notes293Select Bibliography331Index343