MANNHEIM, Karl.

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Ideology and Utopia. First edition in English, first impression, of Mannheim's "most widely read, most controversial, most influential and perhaps most vulnerable" work (Sagarin & Kelly, p. 293), which was originally published in Bonn in 1929. Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) remains known for his contention that conflict within societies is driven by the proliferation of different ideologies within the key social strata. For his emphasis on the direct relationship between ideologies and social groups, Mannheim is recognized among the founders of the sociology of knowledge, and Ideology and Utopia is the work in which he most forcibly stakes his claim to that title. In the text, his stated aim is "to investigate not how thinking appears in textbooks on logic, but how it really functions in public life and politics as an instrument of collective action" (p. 1). This volume collects and translates the Ideology and two other works by Mannheim - an original essay in which he attempted to defend his larger work against charges of relativism and a 1931 article from a German encyclopaedia of sociology.

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