Ideology and Utopia

Karl Mannheim

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136120367
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Sozialwissenschaften
• Sous-sujet: Soziologie

Ideology and Utopia argues that ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in the minds of those who seek to stabilise a social order. Utopias are wish dreams that inspire the collective action of opposition groups which aim at the entire transformation of society. Mannheim shows these two opposing elements to dominate not only our social thought but even unexpectedly to penetrate into the most scientific theories in philosophy, history and the social sciences.
This new edition contains a new preface by Bryan S. Turner which describes Mannheim's work and critically assesses its relevance to modern sociology. The book is published with a comprehensive bibliography of Mannheim's major works.

Index of Subjects

Absolute state, 32, 199; v. also state; corporative state

Absolutes: 77, 78, 83, 84, 86, 112, 117, 132, 135, 152, 178, 182, 219, 227, 235 n., 253–254, 270, 271, 275; v. also validity; absolute validity of thought

Absolute validity of thought: 13, 38, 68, 71, 75, 136, 152, 168, 225, 270, 274–275; v. also absolutes; validity

Absolutism, its ideology, 207 n.

Abstraction, level of, 248–249, 271, 272; v. also constructive abstraction as contrasted with speculation

Abstractness, social factors making for, 205, 216, 246, 271–272, 273

Academies, 160–161

Action: and thought, 3–5, 17–18, 20, 28, 36, 75–78, 85, 112–113, 114, 118, 119, 122, 129, 146, 151–152, 157, 171, 214, 221, 222, 265–267; revealing reality, 87, 112–113, 118, 151; stabilizing the aspect of things, 20, 157; setting new causal sequences in the world, 170; v. also purpose; action, direct; activism; context of activity

Action direct, 119, 122, 125; v. also revolutionary deed of the proletariat; moment in history

Activism, 119, 120 n. 1, 122–123, 126; v. also revolutionary deed of the proletariat; action direct

Activity, science of, 100; of ideas, 185; v. also politics

Administration, 100 ff. (def.), 105–106, 170; v. also bureaucratic thought

Ambivalence of motivations, 204 n. 2; v. also motivations

American sociology, 228–229

Amorphous aspect of life, 134; v. also moment in history; atomization of the basis of thought

Analytical thought, social factors making for it, 8, 150, 246; see also thought; knowledge; synthesis

Anarchism, 125, 177, 178, 196 n. 1, 203, 213, 215, 218–219, 223

Angle of refraction, when ideas are taken over from another social stratum, 204 n. 2, 241, 245

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