| Acknowledgments | |
| A Note on Titles, Abbreviations, and Language in the Text | |
| Introduction: Eppur si muove? | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | Genesis | |
| 1 | A Youth in Romania | 15 |
| 2 | Homeless | 40 |
| Pt. 2 | The Philosophical Background | |
| 3 | A Short History of Method | 65 |
| 4 | Lukacs, Marxism, and Method | 92 |
| Pt. 3 | Faithful Heresy, Tragic Dialectician | |
| 5 | The Dialectics of Lucien Goldmann | 117 |
| 6 | From a Hidden God to the Human Condition | 154 |
| 7 | Existentialism, Marxism, Structuralism | 201 |
| 8 | The Hidden Class: Goldmann's Unwritten Politics | 250 |
| 9 | Between Yes and No | 283 |
| Abbreviations Used in the Notes | 291 |
| Notes | 293 |
| Select Bibliography | 331 |
| Index | 343 |