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Mannheim, Karl was born on March 27, 1893 in Budapest.
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Central to Karl Mannheim's thinking, these essays about the methodological basis of his work show how we can understand, test and mobilize our convictions about the links between cultural and social life, and the formation of knowledge.
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Excerpt from Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge Germany. These papers have not been available in English thus far; they have remained scattered in various German publica tions. Their publication in the present collection of Mannheim's writings serves the purpose of illuminating the genesis and forma tion of one of his most important contributions to sociology, the 'sociology of Knowledge'. For reasons of space, two essays of the same period, dealing with the same kind of topic, will be included in a second volume of essays, otherwise devoted to writings published after Mannheim's emigration from Germany in 1933. I have attempted to give a brief survey of the intellectual and political background of these writings, and of the stages through which Mannheim' 5 ideas concerning the sociology of knowledge developed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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2015 Reprint of Original 1936 American Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Karl Mannheim was a Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology as well as a founder of the sociology of knowledge. His essays on the sociology of knowledge have become classics in the field. In "Ideology and Utopia" he argued that the application of the term ideology ought to be broadened. He traced the history of the term from what he called a "particular" view. This view originally saw ideology as the perhaps deliberate obscuring of facts. Over time this view gave way to a "total" conception (most notably in Marx), which argued that a whole social group's thought was formed by its social position (e.g. the proletariat's beliefs were conditioned by their relationship to the means of production). However, he called for a further step, which he called a general total conception of ideology, in which it was recognized that everyone's beliefs-including the social scientist's-were a product of the context they were created in. Mannheim points out social class, location and generation as the greatest determinants of knowledge. He feared this could lead to relativism but proposed the idea of relationism as an antidote. To uphold the distinction, he maintained that the recognition of different perspectives according to differences in time and social location appears arbitrary only to an abstract and disembodied theory of knowledge.
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Mannheim, Karl was born on March 27, 1893 in Budapest.
Universities of Budapest, Berlin, Paris, Freiburg and Heidelberg.
1926-1930, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Heidelberg. 1930-1933, Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Frankfurt. 1933 45, Lecturer in Sociology, London School of Economics.
Also Lecturer in the Sociology of Education, 1941-1944. 1945-1947, Professor of Education and Sociology, Institute of Education, University of London.
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Mannheim was a sociologist who achieved prominence with Ideology and Utopia (1929) 111 which he defined the nature and scope ol the sociology of knowledge. He contributed also to the analysis of modern society, the sociology ot education and political sociology.
Mannheim’s formulation of the sociology knowledge arose as a reaction against the Geistephilosophie of German idealism. Drawing from many sources, especially Weber’s methodology, Marxism and historicism, he argued that society determines both the form and content ot cognition, with the exception of mathematics and parts of the natural sciences. Thus he regarded knowledge largely as a function of conditions that are not themselves mental but pertain to the socia situation of the thinking subject, and the sociology of knowledge itself as a general method for the correct study of thought and the history of ideas.
Mannheim’s central concern was with the phenomenon of ideology. He distinguished between the particular, the total, and the general conceptions of ideology; that is to say. ideology as designating: isolated portions o the mental experience of the other as distortions of their h in society; the whole of the other’s thoughtand the inclusion of one’s own thinking within the total conception. He held that with the emergence of the theory of ideology develop* into the sociology of knowledge, the task ofwhic is to achieve a comprehensive, epistemology and historical perspective transcending the parti' perspectives associated with particular soci positions, an all-inclusive analysis of the soci influences of thought. Mannheim also defend utopian thought, maintaining that although produces distorted images reality it nevertheless sustains *he will to shape history and therewith the ability to understand it. Mannheim’s great achievement Was twofold. He founded the discipline of the sociology of knowledge and brought the term ■dcology to the attention of sociologists everywhere.
Sociology of knowledge. The structure of modern society. Education; political sociology.
Literary influences: Marx, Max Weber, Dilthey, Scheler and Lukács. Personal: Sir Fred Clarke.