100 Books: Texts That Influenced My Thinking–Lucien Goldmann

The Hidden God A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensées of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine By Lucien Goldmann Preface by Michael Lowy Translated by Philip Thody This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Löwy, a work of “remarkable richness.” […]

Film Theory: Hidden God (ed) Kent Jones, Philip Lopate, Sarris

The subject of God has often been touched on in the movies.

Sociology: Art, Literature–Leo Lowenthal

Lowenthal, Leo. Literature and Mass Culture. Communication in Society, Volume 1. Transaction Books, 1984. Leo Löwenthal (1900-1993) was a sociologist associated with the Frankfurt School. He began his career by joining the Institute for Social Research in 1927 and became managing editor of its journal Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung. After migrating to the United States, he […]

100 Books: Texts That Influenced my Thinking–Fiction And The Reading Public (1932) by Q. D. Leavis

Leavis Ph.D thesis, published under the supervision of I. A. Richards, became the book Fiction And The Reading Public (1932).

Balzac: Literature as Sociology (Book by Pasco)

Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac’s Scènes de la vie de province.