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Karl Mannheim 1893-1947 - Hungary, Germany, England

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Questions of 

role of social values. All knowledge, except in mathematics and physics, is ideological, a reflection of class interests and values; that there is therefore no such thing as objective knowledge or absolute truth.

Reading

• Ideology and Utopia, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1936
• Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1940
• Diagnosis of Our Time, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1943
• Freedom, Power and Democratic Planning, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1950
• Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952
• Essays on Sociology and Social Psychology, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953
• Essays on the Sociology of Culture, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956
• Structures of Thinking, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986
• Conservatism, London: Routedge & Kegan Paul, 1986

Writing Available on the Internet

Quotations

Commentary

Coser, Lewis, Masters of Sociological Thought, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1971

Kettler, D. et al, Karl Mannheim, London, Ellis Horwood/Tavistock, 1984

Loader, C.The Intellectual Development of Karl Mannheim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985

Remmling, Gunter W., The Sociology of Karl Mannheim, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975

Simonds, A. P., Karl Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978

Wolff, Kurt H., From Karl Mannheim, London, Oxford University Press, 1971

Kettler,D. and Meja,V. (1995) Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism.New Brunswick and London: Transaction.

Meja, V. and Stehr, N. (eds) (1982[1990]) Knowledge and Politics. The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.