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<p>To reflect on Karl Mannheim is to address fundamental issues of political enlightenment Mannheim's driving determination "was to learn as a sociologist by close observation the secret (even if it is infernal) of these new times." Mannheim's aim was "to carry liberal values forward." His problem remains irresistible to reflective people at the end of the twentieth century. Mannheim attempted to link social thinking to political emancipation despite overwhelming evidence against the connection. <i>Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism</i> is a sympathetic biography of Mannheim's paradoxicalaand paradigmatica'project.</p> <p>The book covers a wide range of European and American thought, including Mannheim's dealings with Georg Lukacs and Oscar Jászi in Budapest; with Alfred Weber, Leopold von Wiese, Franz Neumann, Paul Tillich, Adolph Loewe, and his students in Weimar Germany; with Louis Wirth, Edward Shils, and other major figures in American sociology; and with social analysts and religious thinkers in England. The analysis is informed by dilemmas of history and theory, science and rhetoric, freedom and technical controlathe themes of liberalism.</p> <p>Kettler and Meja care

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Author

David Kettler; Volker Meja

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138511392

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Memoir, Social Science