2nd Edition

From Karl Mannheim

Edited By Kurt H. Wolff Copyright 1993
605 Pages
by Routledge

606 Pages
by Routledge

450 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Introduction: A Reading of Karl Mannheim; I: A Review of Georg Lukács’ 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; VI: The Problem of Generations; VII: Competition as a Cultural Phenomenon; VIII: Problems of Sociology in Germany; IX: The Democratization of Culture; 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

Biography

Kurt H. Wolff