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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
SOCIAL THEORY

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Volume 76

THE SOCIOLOGY OF
KARL MANNHEIM

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THE SOCIOLOGY OF
KARL MANNHEIM

With a bibliographical guide to the sociology
of knowledge, ideological analysis,
and social planning

GUNTER W. REMMLING

First published in 1975

This edition first published in 2015
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1975 Gunter W. Remmling

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The sociology of Karl Mannheim:

With a bibliographical guide to the
sociology of knowledge, ideological analysis,
and social planning

Gunter W. Remmling

Routledge & Kegan Paul

London

First published in 1975
by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane,
London EC4V 5EL
Set in 10 on 11 pt Times New Roman
and printed in Great Britain by
Western Printing Services Ltd, Bristol
Copyright Gunter W. Remmling 1975
No part of this book may be reproduced in
any form without permission from the
publisher, except for the quotation of brief
passages in criticism

ISBN 0 7100 8025 5

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Contents

One might still indeed live a self-contained and unblemished life if one were to use as a foundation certain earlier positions whose residues still survive among us. But the pressures which spring from the contemporary situation, once they have penetrated our consciousness, permit now only a going to the limit. In this process, one must demolish all firm foundations under ones feet, and all one can do is to grasp the eternal as a component of the most immediate temporal problems. This means that the prophet and the leader themselves become guilty, but it may be hoped that the radicality of the commitment will compensate for the temporal limitation of the objectives.

Karl Mannheim

We are at a curious juncture in the history of human insanity; in the name of realism, men are quite mad, and precisely what they call utopian is now the condition of human survival.

C. Wright Mills

Karl Mannheim occupies a prominent position among the founders of the sociology of knowledge among men who were lone wolves refusing the easy intellectual reassurance and social respectability which are commonly the rewards of the academic specialist who applies a standardized method to a limited, well-circumscribed area of research.

When Max Scheler and Karl Mannheim established the sociology of knowledge during the second decade of the twentieth century they left the safe and tried path leading to quick scholarly success; unafraid of rocking the boat they began asking the gut questions about the modern world questions that aim at understanding the complex interdependence of cultural elements, at the mapping of human behavior in the intricate landscape of the social situation at large, at the meaning of intellectual production, political power, economic force, and the march of history.

In their self-willed confrontation with the problems generated by the transformation of contemporary culture and society, Scheler and Mannheim were heirs to the most vital ideas in the sociological tradition and ultimately fulfilled the function of the intellectual and writer which Jean-Paul Sartre defined in Situations II as an effort to make sure that no individual may remain in ignorance of the world, that no man may call himself guiltless of what goes on in it.

Mannheim eventually arrived on a level of thought where concern for the quality of life emerged as the major motivating force of intellectual work. The quality of life could only be improved after the liberation of people from want and anxiety. For Mannheim freedom was the corollary of human solidarity which alone could bring about worldwide security. The upgrading of the quality of life had to proceed with the help of a technological civilization humanized by the infusion of spiritual-intellectual values.

Marginality and cosmopolitanism combined to leave their imprints on the life of Mannheim which spanned three cultural traditions: Hungarian, German, and British. Kroly Mannheim was born in Budapest on March 27, 1893, as the only surviving child of a Jewish middle-class family; his father, Gustav Manheim, was Hungarian, his mother, Rosa Eylenburg, was German.

During his university life in Budapest Mannheim associated with leftist intellectuals who played a leading role in the post-First World War revolution. His scholarly development began under the influence of Hegelian and Marxist thought and in the company of the Hungarian intellectuals Georg Lukcs, Bla Zalay, Bla Fogarasi, Bla Balzs, Erwin Szab, and Sndor Varjas. On November 9, 1918, the University of Budapest awarded Mannheim the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In March 1920, Admiral Miklos Horthy, leader of the reactionary Hungarian counter-revolution, took over the government and Mannheim migrated to Germany hoping to achieve there the free intellectual growth which the advent of a political tyrant had made impossible in his native country.

As a student Mannheim was profoundly influenced by the German scholars Emil Lask, Heinrich Rickert, and Edmund Husserl; in his research he confronted issues raised by Emil Lederer, Max Weber, Alfred Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Max Scheler, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Karl Marx.

Again, it was a political tyrant Adolf Hitler who terminated Mannheims academic career in Germany, which had begun in 1926, with an unsalaried lectureship (Privatdozentur) at the University of Heidelberg, and ended at the University of Frankfurt am Main, where, in 1930, he had succeeded to the chair of Franz Oppenheimer as Professor of Sociology and Political Economy.

In 1933, having been dismissed from the University of Frankfurt, Mannheim joined the London School of Economics and Political Science as a lecturer in sociology. As late as 1945, he was appointed to the premier chair in education at the University of London and started to teach the sociology and philosophy of education.

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