Knowledge and Politics (RLE Social Theory)

Abstract

Part 1 Volker Meja and Nico Stehr, on the sociology of knowledge. Part 2 the sociology of knowledge - early statements: Max Scheler, sociology of knowledge - formal and material problems Karl Mannheim, the ideogical and sociological interpretation of intellectual phenomena. Part 3 The sociology of knowledge dispute: Karl Mannheim, as a cultural phenomenon discussion of Karl Mannheim's competition paper at the sixth German congress of sociologists (Zurich 1928) contributors - Alfred Weber, Werner Sombart, Robert Wilbrandt, Emil Lederer, Adolph Lowe, Alfred Meusel, Norbert Elias, Hans Jones, Paul Eppstein, summary statement by Karl Mannheim Paul Tillich, on ideology and utopia Ernst Robert Curtius, sociology and its limits Karl Mannheim, problems of sociology in Germany Herbert Marcuse, the sociological method and the problem of truth Max Horkheimer, a new concept of ideology? Ernst Lewalter, sociology of knowledge and Marxism Gunther Anders, on the so-called existential connectedness of consciousness Hannah Arendt, philosphy and sociology Hans Speier, sociology or ideology? Karl August Wittfogel, knowledge and society Edward Spranger, ideology and science Helmuth Plessner, the concept of ideology and its variants Ernst Gruwald, the sociology of knowledge and epistemology Alexander von Schelting, the sociology of knowledge and methodology. Part 4 Nico Stehr and Volker Meja, relativism and the sociology of knowledge: on the authors on the editors.