How where we stand shapes what we take to be true: Karl Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge
Mannheim asked how politics and social position shape what a society accepts as knowledge, and set the ideologies that defend an order beside the utopias that would change it.
The story
Karl Mannheim’s question was how far what people accept as knowledge and truth depends on where they stand: their politics and their place in society. Ideology and Utopia sets two kinds of thinking side by side, the ideologies that preserve existing arrangements and the utopian thinking that sets out to transform society, and it became a foundational book of twentieth-century sociology.
Louis Wirth and Edward Shils translated it, and Wirth wrote a preface. Kegan Paul of London first published the English edition in 1936; this copy is its third impression, printed in 1946.
The green cloth, gilt on the spine, shows minor wear at the edges and corners, and the text is clean.
Details
- Date
- 1946
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London
- Binding
- cloth: Green publisher's cloth with gilt spine
- Condition
- Green cloth with gilt spine, minor edge wear and corner rubbing, faded library/pricing pencil markings; text clean overall; no jacket. Binding appears intact; complete collation unchecked.