Philosopher
Karl Mannheim
Overview
Karl Mannheim (born Károly Manheim, 27 March 1893 – 9 January 1947) was a Hungarian sociologist and a key figure in classical sociology as well as one of the founders of the sociology of knowledge. Mannheim is best known for his book Ideology and Utopia (1929/1936), in which he distinguishes between partial and total ideologies, the latter representing comprehensive worldviews distinctive to particular social groups, and also between ideologies that provide support for existing social arrangements, and utopias, which look to the future and propose a transformation of society.
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Philosophers who discussed Karl Mannheim
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Paul Tillich
- György Lukács
- Karl Polanyi
- Hannah Arendt
- Franz Neumann (political scientist)
Ideas Karl Mannheim discusses
- Heidelberg University
- Georg Simmel
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Germany
- Philosophy
- Historicism
- Immanuel Kant
- Karl Marx
- Internet Archive
- London
- Leipzig
- Sociology
- Literature
- Marxism
- Materialism
- Max Weber
- Max Horkheimer
- UNESCO
- Walter Benjamin
- Frankfurt School
- Paris
- Jews
- Sigmund Freud
- Søren Kierkegaard
Place in the tradition
Part of Social epistemology.