Ideology and Utopia

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roEOLOGY AND UTOPIA Karl Mannheim
A great sociologist here analyses brilliantly the shifting social and ideological currents of our time in a book essential to clear understanding and judgment of the contemporary world.
Professor Mannheim considers that ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in the minds of those who seek to stabilise a social order. Utopias are wish-dreams that inspire the collective action of opposition groups which aim at entirely transforming such a society. These two opposing elements Professor Mannheim shows to dominate not only our social thought but even unexpectedly to penetrate into the most scientific theories in philosophy, history and the social sciences.
Karl Mannheim, one of the great sociologists, was founder of the International Library of Sociology.
'A brave book, fascinating in its subtlety of argument, stimulating in the breadth and challenging nature of its... Tovább

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roEOLOGY AND UTOPIA Karl Mannheim
A great sociologist here analyses brilliantly the shifting social and ideological currents of our time in a book essential to clear understanding and judgment of the contemporary world.
Professor Mannheim considers that ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in the minds of those who seek to stabilise a social order. Utopias are wish-dreams that inspire the collective action of opposition groups which aim at entirely transforming such a society. These two opposing elements Professor Mannheim shows to dominate not only our social thought but even unexpectedly to penetrate into the most scientific theories in philosophy, history and the social sciences.
Karl Mannheim, one of the great sociologists, was founder of the International Library of Sociology.
'A brave book, fascinating in its subtlety of argument, stimulating in the breadth and challenging nature of its conclusions and carrying easily its load of scholarship.' — Raymond Firth, Sunday Times
'It is a contribution of the first importance to the understanding of our distressed world. Scholarly in form, built upon a wide command of the relevant material, there is hardly a page on which illumination is not to be found. This is undoubtedly one of that rare class of books which shape the course of intellectual debate for many years.' —Harold Laski, New Statesman Vissza