Karl Mannheim
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"Although the word "intelligentsia" is originally Russian, it was best defined by Karl Mannheim when, in Ideology And Utopia, he wrote, "In every society there are social groups whose special task it is to provide an interpretation of the world for that society. We call these the 'intelligentsia.'" --Rabelais and His World, prologue |
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Karl Mannheim (March 27, 1893 – January 9, 1947), or Károly Manheim in the original spelling, was a Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology as well as a founder of the sociology of knowledge. He is most known for his book Ideology and Utopia published in 1929 where he argues that ideologies are the true nature of any given society and in trying to achieve utopia, these ideologies affect theories of philosophy and even history.
Selected works
- Mannheim, K. ([1922-24] 1980) Structures of Thinking. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Mannheim, K. ([1925] 1986) Conservatism. A Contribution to the Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Mannheim, K. (1929), Ideologie und Utopie
- Mannheim, K. ([1930] 2001) Sociology as Political Education. New Brunswick, NJ. Transaction.
- Mannheim, K. (1935 (English 1940)) Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction. London: Routledge.
- Mannheim, K. (1936) Ideology and Utopia. London: Routledge.
- Mannheim, K. (1950) "Freedom, Power, and Democratic Planning." Oxford University Press
- Mannheim, K. (1971. 1993) From Karl Mannheim. New Brunswick, NJ. Transaction.
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