Ideology and Utopia

Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2013.

1 online resource (377 p.)

2nd ed.

Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; Ideology and Utopia; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Preface to the Collected Works; Books and Monographs; I. Preliminary Approach to the Problem; 1. The Sociological Concept of Thought; 2. The Contemporary Predicament of Thought; 3. The Origin of the Modern Epistemological, Psychological and Sociological Points of View; 4. Control of the Collective Unconscious as a Problem of our Age; II. Ideology and Utopia; 1. Definition of Concepts; 2. The Concept ofIdeology in Historical Perspective; 3. From the Particular to the Total Conception of Ideology. - (a) Orientation towards Natural Science as a model of thought. - (b) The Second Form of the Utopian Mentality: The Liberal-Humanitarian Idea(c) The Third Form of the Utopian Mentality:The Conservative Idea; (d) The Fourth Form of the Utopian Mentality: The Socialist-Communist Utopia; 4. Utopia in the Present Situation; V. The Sociology of Knowledge; 1. Its Nature and Scope; (a) Definition and Subdivision of the Sociology of Knowledge; (b) Sociology of Knowledge and the Theory of ideology; 2. The Two Divisions of the Sociology of Knowledge; (A) The Theory of the Social Detennination of Knowledge. - 3. Synthesis of the Various Perspectives as a Problem of Political Sociology4. The Sociological Problem of the ""intelligentsia""; 5. The Nature of Political Knowledge; 6. The Communicability of Political Knowledge; 7. Three Varieties of the Sociology of Knowledge; IV. The Utopian Mentality; 1. Utopia, Ideology, and the Problem of Reality; 2. Wish-fulfilment and Utopian Mentality; 3. Changes in the Configuration of the Utopian Mentality: Its Stages in Modern Times; (a) The First Form of the Utopian Mentality: The Orgiastic Chiliasm of the Anabaptists. - 4. Objectivity and Bias5. The Transition from the Theory of Ideology to the Sociology of Knowledge; 6. The Non-Evaluative Conception of Ideology; 7. From the Non-Evaluative to the Evaluative Conception of Ideology; 8. Ontological Judgments Implicit in the Non-Evaluative Conception; 9. The Problem of ""False Consciousness""; 10. The Quest for Reality through Ideological and Utopian analysis; III. The Prospects of Scientific Politics: The Relationship between Social Theory and Political Practice; 1. Why is there no Science of Politics?; 2. The Political and Social Determinants of Knowledge. - Purely empirical aspect of the investigation of the social determination of knowledge.Social processes influencing the process of knowledge.; Essential penetration of the social process into the ""perspective"" of thought.; The special approach characteristic of the Sociologyof Knowledge.; The acquisition of perspective as a precondition forthe Sociology of Knowledge.; Relationism.; Particularization.; (B) Epistemological Consequences of the Sociology of knowledge; Epistemology and the Special Sciences.; 3. Demonstration of the Partial Nature of Traditional Epistemology. - Ideology and Utopia argues that ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in the minds of those who seek to stabilise a social order. Utopias are wish dreams that inspire the collective action of opposition groups which aim at the entire transformation of society. Mannheim shows these two opposing elements to dominate not only our social thought but even unexpectedly to penetrate into the most scientific theories in philosophy, history and the social sciences.This new edition contains a new preface by

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