Abstract
Alienated Mind investigates emergence and development of sociology of knowledge in Germany in critical period 1918-33. These years witnessed development of distinctive paradigms centred on works of Max Scheler, Georg Lukacs and Karl Mannheim. The theoretical and practical context within which diverse strands of this tradition emerged in German social theory are investigated in order to indicate, in part, extent to which central problems in sociology of knowledge were located within philosophical, sociological, cultural and political crises in Germany. In context of their development of sociologies of knowledge and culture, Scheler, Lukacs and Mannheim outlined versions of alienation of mind thesis: for Scheler powerlessness of mind; for Lukacs the rectification of consciousness; for Mannheim the homelessness of mind. Each theorist sought to confront base/superstructure models of relationship between knowledge and society. How these and other themes in sociology of knowledge were contested is illustrated in a detailed account of some of central debates in Weimar Germany. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics of sociology and philosophy.
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