Chapter
Chapter One Between Ideology and Utopia: Karl Mannheim’s Quest for a Political Synthesis
Introduction: The Development of the Classical Sociology of Knowledge
Existentially Connected Knowledge
Requirements on Knowledge to Be Included in the Synthesis
The Socially Unattached Intelligentsia
Concluding Reflections: Reconstructing Political Reason in Modern Society
Chapter Two Karl Mannheim and the Realism Debate in Political Theory
The Realist Critique in Political Theory
Political “Reality” as Problem, Not a Solution
Mannheim’s Attack on the Political Philosophy of His Own Moment
Mannheim’s New Political Science I
Mannheim’s New Political Science II: Ideology and Political Contexts
A New Political Science of Political Ideology...
Conclusion: Political Realism and a Mobile Political Reality
Chapter Three Mannheim, Mass Society and Democratic Theory
Mass Society and Democratic Theory
Mass Psychology and Political Theory
The Crisis of Mass Democracy
Mannheim’s Discourses on Mass Society and Democracy
Irrational, Disintegrating Mass Society
Planning for Freedom as the Third Way
Mannheim and His Contemporaries in England
Mannheim, Eliot and the Democratization of Culture
Mannheim, Lindsay and Democracy as a Way of Life
Mannheim’s Idea of “the Democratic” and Its Place in Democratic Theory
Chapter Four Karl Mannheim and Hannah Arendt on Conduct, Action and Politics
Max Weber and Action Theory
Politics and Action in Ideology and Utopia
Arendt’s Triadic Theory of Activity
Comparing Mannheim and Arendt
Chapter Five Karl Mannheim and Women’s Research
Intellectuals, Women, Classes
Sociology and Women’s Experiences
A Case Study: Käthe Truhel and the Two-Term Dialectics of Modernity
Bureaucracy and the “Crisis” of the State
The “Social” under Stress
Social Bureaucracy as a Field of Contestation
The Limits of Social Bureaucracy
Käthe Truhel in the Mannheim “Group”
Chapter Six The Melodrama of Modernity in Karl Mannheim’s Political Theory
The Problematic and Structure of the Chapter
Mannheim’s Analysis of Modernity
Sociology of Knowledge as a Means of Negotiating the Conditions of Knowledge in Modernity
Mannheim’s Normative Judgment of Modernity: Positive Potentials and the Recognition of Plurality
Plurality and the Birth of Optionality: An Intellectual Force against Essentialist Knowledge Claims
Chapter Seven Historicization and the Sociology of Knowledge*
Reproblematizing Historicization
Historicization in the Sociology of Knowledge
Chapter Eight Karl Mannheim, T. S. Eliot and Raymond Williams: Cultural Sociology or Cultural Studies?
Chapter Ten Praxeological Sociology of Knowledge and Documentary Method: Karl Mannheim’s framing of empirical research
Sociology of Culture or Knowledge as a “Method” and the Praxeological Attitude of Analysis
Subjective Meaning and the Construction of Motives versus the “Genetic Attitude”
Communicative and Conjunctive Knowledge
Implicit, Atheoretical and Incorporated Knowledge
Understanding and Interpretation
Praxeological Sociology of Knowledge, Practical Hermeneutics and Interpretivism
The Fundamental Constitution of Meaning in Practice and Interaction
Working Steps of the Documentary Method in Practical Research...
Reflecting Interpretation and Case-Internal Comparative Analysis
Typification and Comparative Analysis between Cases
The Multidimensionality of Typification
The Interpretation of Pictures, Videos and Films
Recent Perspectives in Dealing with Mannheim’s Categories
The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim
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