1st Edition

Knowledge and Politics The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute

Edited By Volker Meja, Nico Stehr Copyright 1990
332 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

Karl Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia has been a profoundly provocative book. The debate about politics and social knowledge that was spawned by its original publication in 1929 attracted the most promising younger scholars, some of whom shaped the thought of several generations. The book became a focus for a debate on the methodological and epistemological problems confronting German social... Read more

Part 1. Introduction  1. On the Sociology of Knowledge Dispute Volker Meja and Nico Stehr  Part 2. The Sociology of Knowledge: Early Statements  2. The Sociology of Knowledge: Formal and Material Problems Max Scheler  3. The Ideological and Sociological Interpretation of Intellectual Phenomena Karl Mannheim  Part 3. The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute  4. Competition as a Cultural Phenomenon Karl Mannheim  5. Discussion of Karl Mannheim’s ‘Competition’ Paper at the Sixth Congress of German Sociologists (Zurich, 1928) Alfred Weber, Werner Sombart, Robert Wilbrandt, Emil Lederer, Adolph Lowe, Alfred Meusel, Norbert Elias, Hans Jonas, Paul Eppstein. Summary statement by Karl Mannheim.  6. On Ideology and Utopia Paul Tillich  7. Sociology – and its Limits Ernst Robert Curtius  8. Problems of Sociology in Germany Karl Mannheim  9. The Sociological method and the Problem of Truth Herbert Marcuse  10. A New Concept of Ideology? Max Horkheimer  11. The Sociology of Knowledge and Marxism Ernst Lewalter  12. On the So-Called ‘Existential Connectedness’ of Consciousness Gunther Anders  13. Philosophy and Sociology Hannah Arendt  14. Sociology or Ideology? Hans Speier  15. Knowledge and Society Karl August Wittfogel  16. Ideology and Science Eduard Spranger  17. The Conception of Ideology and Its Vicissitudes Helmuth Plessner  18. The Sociology of Knowledge and Epistemology Ernst Grunwald  19. The Sociology of Knowledge and Methodology Alexander von Schelting  Part 4. Epilogue  20. Relativism and the Sociology of Knowledge Nico Stehr and Volker Meja

Biography

Volker Meja, Nico Stehr