Abstract
The deeply interested response to Mannheim's work among certain Weimar reformist socialists prompts a reconsideration of his political thought. The affinity between them arises out of similar conceptions of synthesis as a practical, provisional normalization of continuing oppositions rather than as a transcendent reconciliation of contradictions. In this respect, Mannheim's sociology of knowledge resembles the constitutional theories of such socialist lawyers as Franz L. Neumann and Ernst Fraenkel. Such theories of imperfect synthesis are again relevant in the contemporary state of critical political theory.
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