Método à procura de objeto: conceito de >i<visão do mundo>/i< na obra de Lucien Goldmann

Abstract

This research analyzes the genesis and role of the concept of worldview (Weltanschauung) in the work of the Romanian-French Sociologist Lucien Goldmann (1913, considering the importance of the questions it raises for a reflection upon the human sciences. The conjugation, promoted by Goldmann, of Marxist theory with the so-called sciences of the spirit can be considered one of the indicators of the situation of the human sciences in general, and of Marxism in particular, in the midtwentieth century. The research was conducted from the immanent analysis of Goldmann's oeuvre, in its original language, allowing for the confrontation of his methodological considerations with his historical-sociological analyses, seeking to explain the specific form of emergence of the concept of worldview throughout the Goldmannian production, including the relativization of its use in his studies of sociology of literature carried out in the 1960s.