Overview

Karl Mannheim's Sociology as Political Education is a joint effort by two authors who have written separately on Karl Mannheim's sociological work and who write from different disciplines and traditions of commentary. The Mannheim who emerges from this volume is a remarkably contemporary partner for current discussions, where the threat to academic integrity is found less in sociology than in certain areas of cultural studies and where the issue of politicization is less well understood by both sides of the debate than by Mannheim in his time.

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This volume is certainly valuable to those interested in the history of modern Western political thought, in identifying some of the origins of postmodernism, and in Mannheim's intellectual development. Yet the book is not only of historical significance, as the editors rightly maintain. Karl Mannheim's Sociology as Political Education conveys also some of Mannheim's deep and historically unbounded insights, among these, his subtle hint of warning about the intellectuals always running the risk of being absorbed into the seductive self-evidence of the world as it represents itself. -- Contemporary Sociology

This volume is certainly valuable to those interested in the history of modern Western political thought, in identifying some of the origins of postmodernism, and in Mannheim's intellectual development. Yet the book is not only of historical significance, as the editors rightly maintain. Karl Mannheim's Sociology as Political Education conveys also some of Mannheim's deep and historically unbounded insights, among these, his subtle hint of warning about the intellectuals always running the risk of being absorbed into the seductive self-evidence of the world as it represents itself. --Contemporary Sociology

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Colin Loader is professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. David Kettler is scholar in residence at Bard College and professor emeritus at Trent University.

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