La categoría de la visión del mundo en Lucien Goldmann

Abstract

The world vision described by Lucien Goldmann is viewed in this article as an instrument of sociohistorical analysis of the intellectual production of the collective subject in a community. The political biography and epistemological roots of Goldmann, who was born in Bucharest in 1913 and died in Paris in 1970, are set forth. Influenced by Marx, Lukacs and Piaget, his research falls within the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of literature. His method of genetic structuralism places him at odds with French structuralism of which he was a severe critic. His political gamble on the self-determination of the working class as a model for the impetus of the transformation of social relations is analyzed. His debates with Adorno, Marcuse, Lacan and Foucault are well know. As a philosopher he was a mixture of pessimism and utopianism.