These six essays offer an excellent overview of Goldmann’s philosophy and sociology. They include not only some of his last writings on mass media and mass culture, new forms of literary creativity, and avant-garde theatre and cinema, but also some of his last thoughts on the problems of social change and political organization in advanced capitalist society. (from the Introduction)

Also included are commentaries on Goldmann’s work by Jean Piaget and Herbert Marcuse.

Originally published as La Création culturelle dans la société moderne, Denoel, Paris, 1971

Introduction by William Mayrl

Translated by Bart Grahl

Bibliography and Appendices compiled by Ileana Rodriguez and Marc Zimmerman

Publisher Telos Press, St. Louis, MI, 1976

ISBN 0631182209

173 pages

via fading aesthetic

Commentary (Miriam Glucksmann, New Left Review, 1969)

Publisher

Google books

PDF (updated to an OCR’d version on 2014-5-8 via Marcell Mars)