Detrás de cualquier acción social, existen conceptos sociopsicológicos colectivos fundamentales: ideologías y utopías. Las ideologías son construcciones interpretativas que buscan justificar y estabilizar un determinado orden social ocultando la verdadera naturaleza de la desigualdad en alguna sociedad. Las utopías, en cambio, inspiran a la acción colectiva para alcanzar una transformación radical y total de la sociedad. Originalmente publicada en 1941 por el FCE, esta obra, que combina el...

Ideology and Utopia argues 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 the entire transformation of society. Mannheim shows these two opposing elements to dominate not only our social thought but even unexpectedly to penetrate into the most scientif...

Karl Mannheim (1893–1947) gilt gemeinsam mit Max Scheler als Begründer der Wissenssoziologie. Sein wissenssoziologischer Ansatz rückt die "Sozialverbundenheit" der Wissensproduktion von Intellektuellen ins Zentrum der Analyse. Mannheim wollte zeigen, dass nicht nur das Denken des Alltagsmenschen sozial bedingt ist, sondern dass auch Spezialisten und Wissenschaftler in ihren Forschungen und Abhandlungen bestimmten Weltanschauungen unterliegen. Er entwickelte deshalb eine eigene wissenssozio...

Questo libro raccoglie sei saggi scritti da Karl Mannheim tra il 1929 e il 1936. Sono testi importanti per capire lo sviluppo del pensiero del loro autore, il ruolo della sociologia in quegli anni fatidici tra le due guerre mondiali, la funzione culturale e pubblica che questa disciplina dovrebbe avere oggi. Questi temi vengono affrontati prima nell’ambiente complesso e travagliato della Repubblica di Weimar, poi, dopo l’esilio, in Inghilterra. Riflettere sulla sociologia significa però ri...

Il volume propone, in una nuova traduzione, due saggi di Karl Mannheim: Il problema delle generazioni e Il problema della gioventù. Lungo un percorso di analisi che ricombina le complesse matrici teoriche e metodologiche della sua riflessione, Mannheim elabora la prima definizione compiutamente sociologica del concetto di generazione, evidenzia la forza del legame tra dinamica generazionale e processi di mutamento e definisce la funzione sociologica della gioventù, intesa come una risorsa ...

This book is concerned with the problem of how men actually think. The aim of these studies is to investigate not how thinking appears in textbooks on logic, but how it really functions in public life and in politics as an instrument of collective action.Philosophers have too long concerned themselves with their own thinking. When they wrote of thought, they had in mind primarily their own history, the history of philosophy, or quite special fields of knowledge such as mathematics o...

Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge by Karl Mannheim is a foundational work in the field of sociology, offering profound insights into how human thought, knowledge, and ideology are shaped by social contexts. Originally published in the early 20th century, Mannheim's essays explore the relationship between knowledge and society, challenging the notion that ideas exist independently of the social environment in which they arise. His work remains essential for students and scholars interest...

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, ...

This is Volume VI of a collection of works by Karl Mannheim. Originally published in 1953, this book holds essays that completes the re-edition of the shorter scientific papers, which Karl Mannheim wrote during the last twenty-five years of his life.

First published in 1957. This is Volume VIII of Mannheim's collected works. When Karl Mannheim was proscribed by Hitler in 1933, like others on that first list he was at once offered academic posts in universities in different parts of the world. He came to London, and the book which follows is based on two of the courses of lectures that he gave in London: the first was given at the London School of Economics under the title Systematic Sociology, and the second elsewhere under the title S...

Karl Mannheim was one of the leading sociologists of the twentieth century. Essays on the Sociology of Culture, originally published in 1956, was one of his most important books. In it he sets out his ideas of intellectuals as producers of culture and explores the possibilities of a democratization of culture. This new edition includes a superb new preface by Bryan Turner which sets Mannheim's study in the appropriate historical and intellectual context and explains why his though...

First published in 1943. This is Volume III of the collected works of Karl Mannheim and focuses on a collection of sociological works written to give viewpoints and perspectives during the time of war around 1941.