From Karl Mannheim
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Milton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9781351518642
Subjects: Social history; Histoire sociale
Description: "Karl Mannheim's thought cuts across much of twentieth-century sociology, politics, history, philosophy, and psychology. This enlarged anthology convincingly demonstrates his centrality to present-day interpetive social and political theory. The posthumous publication of Structures of Thinking and the full text of Conservatism have made From Karl Mannheim more relevant than ever. This volume demonstrates Mannheim's self-awareness and self-critical rhetoric, his sensitivity to cultural contexts, his experimental approach to systems of ideology, his recognition of multiple modes of knowing, and other features of his unfinished theorizing. There is a strong affinity between Mannheim and contemporary interest in problems of cultural interpretation. New sensitivity to the issue of relativism in both social and cultural studies also depends heavily on Mannheim. The recent demise of communism in Eastern Europe and Russia has focused attention once more on relations between intellectuals in politics, and Mannheim is arguably the most influential thinker who placed this relationship at the center of informed discussion. The range and variety of the articles in this volume reveal him, once again, as a formidable experimental and innovative thinker. This expanded edition includes Mannheim's brilliant essay "The Problem of Generations." In a new substantial introduction, Volker Meja and David Kettler analyze previously unpublished writings by Mannheim. From Karl Mannheim is essential reading for social and political theorists, as well as for psychologists. As Emory S. Bogardus noted: "Mannheim's life-work is seen as an important, far-reaching and thoughtful complement to the work of sociologists who concentrate then- research in terms of behavioral science.""--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Introduction: A Reading of Karl Mannheim; I A Review of Georg Lukacs' Theory of the Novel; II On the Interpretation of Weltanschauung; III The Problem of a Sociology of Knowledge; IV The Ideological and the Sociological Interpretation of Intellectual Phenomena; V Conservative Thought; 1. Introduction; 2. Section I: Modern Rationalism and the Rise of the Conservative Opposition; 3. Section II: The Meaning of Conservatism; 4. Section III: The Social Structure of Romantic and Feudalistic Conservatism.; title: VI The Problem of Generations1. How the Problem Stands at the Moment; 2. The Sociological Problem of Generations; VII Competition as a Cultural Phenomenon; VIII Problems of Sociology in Germany; IX The Democratization of Culture; 1. Some Problems of Political Democracy at the Stage of its Full Development; X The Crisis of Liberalism and Democracy as seen from the Continental and Anglo-Saxon Points of View; XI On the Diagnosis of Our Time; XII Education, Sociology and the Problem of Social Awareness; Index.