The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim

Volker Meja, David Kettler, Volker Meja, David Kettler

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781783084807
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783086498
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

The Hungarian-born Karl Mannheim became recognized as a pathbreaking sociologist in Germany when he published 'Ideologie und Utopie' (1929) and in the English-speaking world upon publication of 'Ideology and Utopia' (1936), a book in which he explored the possibilities of an approach to political thought by way of sociology of knowledge. Eighty years later, and viewed from varied substance-rich perspectives worldwide, the many facets of Mannheim's original work are examined in their bearing on numerous other questions in political theory, cultural studies and social analysis. 'The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim' is an international collection of original articles on the classical sociologist and documents the current revitalization of the reception of this social thinker. Using "learning from Mannheim" as their motif, the chapters in this volume favor fresh negotiations with his works, including the writings published posthumously in recent decades.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction: Karl Mannheim as Interlocutor
• Chapter One Between Ideology and Utopia: Karl Mannheim’s Quest for a Political Synthesis
• Chapter Two Karl Mannheim and the Realism Debate in Political Theory
• Chapter Three Mannheim, Mass Society and Democratic Theory
• Chapter Four Karl Mannheim and Hannah Arendt on Conduct, Action and Politics
• Chapter Five Karl Mannheim and Women’s Research
• Chapter Six The Melodrama of Modernity in Karl Mannheim’s Political Theory
• Chapter Seven Historicization and the Sociology of Knowledge*
• Chapter Eight Karl Mannheim, T. S. Eliot and Raymond Williams: Cultural Sociology or Cultural Studies?
• Chapter Nine Karl Mannheim’s Sociology of Self-Reflexivity*
• Chapter Ten Praxeological Sociology of Knowledge and Documentary Method: Karl Mannheim’s framing of empirical research
• Contributors
• Index