Can I read Karl Mannheim and Hungarian Marxism on EtoBox?

Karl Mannheim and Hungarian Marxism by Joseph Gabel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Karl Mannheim and Hungarian Marxism about?

This remarkable work situates the great Karl Mannheim not only in the Austro-Hungarian empire, but in Hungary and especially in the intellectual fever pitch of pre-war Budapest, with its plethora of revisionist Marxists, anarchists, and intellectuals from a variety of areas who brought radical ideas into the mainstream of biological and social sciences. As Gabel reminds us, Budapest provided a special environment in which the cross-currents of Europe met, and was uniquely devoid of the xenophobia and militarism of so many other parts of Europe. The volume serves as a useful introduction to the force and character of Marxism in Central Europe. Gabel covers not only key figures but major concepts associated with Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge: ideology and false consciousness; the socially unattached intelligentsia; and the utopian conscience. In addition, we are given a tour of the work of Mannheim as seen in Germany, France and England. Gabel's has a unique mastery of the major languages of Europe, and this gives him the potential for a reinterpretation of Mannheim that reveals the author to be a talented thinker in his own right, and not simply a chronicler of the work of

Who reads Karl Mannheim and Hungarian Marxism?

Author

Joseph Gabel

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9781412808071

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Economics, Social Science