Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge

by Karl Mannheim

Overview

First published in 1952.This is Volume V of Mannheim's collected works. When Karl Mannheim died early in 1947 in his fifty-third year, he left a number of unpublished manuscripts in varying stages of completion. The present volume is the sequel to Freedom, Power, and Democratic Planning, which was published in 1950. It contains six essays which Mannheim wrote and published in German scientific magazines between 1923 and 1929: elaborations of one dominant theme, the Sociology of Knowledge, which at the same time represents one of Mannheim's main contributions to sociological theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789873399
Publisher:	Pantianos Classics
Publication date:	01/01/1952
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Karl Mannheim, Paul Kecskemeti

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 On the Interpretation of Weltanschauung1First published in Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 1 (XV), 1921/22; Vienna, 1923.; Chapter 3 Historicism1First published in Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, J. C. B. Mohr, Tübingen; vol. 52, No. 1, June 1924.; Chapter 4 The Problem of a Sociology of Knowledge; Chapter 5 Competition as A Cultural Phenomenon; Chapter 6 On the Nature of Economic Ambition and Its Significance for the Social Education of Man; Chapter 7 The Problem of Generations;