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131Political theory, ideology, sociology: The question of Karl MannheimPhilosophy and Social Criticism 3 (1): 69-80. 1975.
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67‘How can we tell it to the children?’ A deliberation at the Institute of Social ResearchThesis Eleven 111 (1): 110-122. 2012.To introduce an archival protocol of a ‘Debate about methods in the social sciences, especially the conception of social science method represented by the Institute’, held on 17 January 1941 at the Institute of Social Research in New York, the article focuses on certain conflicts in substance and terms of discourse among members of the Institute, with special emphasis on Franz Neumann’s distinctive approaches, notwithstanding his professed loyalty to Max Horkheimer’s theory. These are seen to ar…Read more
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36History and Theory in Ferguson's Essay On the History of Civil SocietyPolitical Theory 5 (4): 437-460. 1977.as you have stated the Question, 'tis not about what was First, or Foremost; but what is Instant, and Now in being.... You go (if I may say so) upon Fact, and would prove that things actually are in such a state and condition, which if they really were, there would indeed by no dispute left. [Shaftesbury, The Moralist]. As for the Performance itself, it is but an Essay. [Edward Ward]
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78Contested Legacies Political Theory and the Hitler EraEuropean Journal of Political Theory 3 (2): 117-120. 2004.
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18A Note on the Aesthetic Dimension in Marcuse's Social TheoryPolitical Theory 10 (2): 267-275. 1982.
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6This book focuses on the important work of Karl Mannheim by demonstrating how his theoretical conception of a reflexive sociology took shape as a collaborative empirical research programme. The authors show how contemporary work along these lines, whether derived from Foucault, Bourdieu or other theorists, can benefit from the insights of Mannheim and his students into both morphology and genealogy.
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31Political Education for a Polity of DissensusEuropean Journal of Political Theory 1 (1): 31-51. 2002.The aim of this article is to state a case for Karl Mannheim as an interlocutor no less important than Michael Oakeshott for an inquiry into the manner and purpose of teaching politics. Beginning with Max Weber, I develop an account of Karl Mannheim as a prime contender for Weber's legacy in political education, along with two contemporaries, Albert Salomon and Hans Freyer, whose contrasting appropriations of the legacy will highlight important elements that distinguish Mannheim's approach from …Read more
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38"That typically German kind of sociology which Verges towards philosophy": The dispute about ideology and utopia in the united statesSociological Theory 12 (3): 279-303. 1994.
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3871Karl Mannhelm and the Soclology of KnowledgeIn Barry Smart & George Ritzer (eds.), Handbook of Social Theory, Sage Publications. pp. 100. 2001.An introduction to Karl Mannheim's sociology of knowledge for a textbook
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14Women and the state: Käthe Truhel and the idea of a social bureaucracyHistory of the Human Sciences 20 (1): 19-44. 2007.Käthe Truhel’s 1934 doctoral dissertation, prepared under the supervision of Karl Mannheim, repays detailed examination for a number of reasons. First, it serves as an important counter-example to commonplace generalities about the alleged incapacity of women social workers of Truhel’s generation, supposedly enmeshed in ideological myths about ‘motherliness’, to reflect on their power relations to a male-dominated society and state. Second, it offers an intrinsically interesting and subtle analy…Read more
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Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Secret of These New TimesScience and Society 61 (4): 559-561. 1997.
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61. Weimar SociologyIn John P. McCormick & Peter E. Gordon (eds.), Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy, Princeton University Press. pp. 15-34. 2013.
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16Introduction to 'Soul and Culture'Theory, Culture and Society 29 (7-8): 279-285. 2012.This introduction briefly places Karl Mannheim’s 1918 lecture on the crisis in relations between ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ culture in the context of Mannheim’s negotiations with Georg Simmel’s sociology of culture, as mediated by the young Mannheim’s intimate ties to Georg Lukács and his circle.
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