Abstract
Mannheim is an important figure, if not the important figure in the sociology of knowledge. His opinions might not always have been clearly expressed or consistent, but he asked many of the right questions and indicated a range of possible solutions. He has, however, been ill-served by his commentators who have tended to see him as an idiosyncratic adjunct of Marx.1 In contrast, Vallas2 has made an important contribution to Mannheim scholarship. He has correctly identified him as a conservative thinker, has identified the contradictions in Mannheim's work which centre around the concept of historicism and, above all in our view, clearly sees the difficult relations between Mannheim, on the one hand, and Marx and materialism on the other.
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