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Karl Mannheim and Hungarian Marxism (Paperback)
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This remarkable work situates the great Karl Mannheim not only in
the Austro-Hungarian empire, but in Hungary and especially in the
intellectual fever pitch of pre-war Budapest, with its plethora of
revisionist Marxists, anarchists, and intellectuals from a variety
of areas who brought radical ideas into the mainstream of
biological and social sciences. As Gabel reminds us, Budapest
provided a special environment in which the cross-currents of
Europe met, and was uniquely devoid of the xenophobia and
militarism of so many other parts of Europe. The volume serves as a
useful introduction to the force and character of Marxism in
Central Europe. Gabel covers not only key figures but major
concepts associated with Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge:
ideology and false consciousness; the socially unattached
intelligentsia; and the utopian conscience. In addition, we are
given a tour of the work of Mannheim as seen in Germany, France and
England. Gabel's has a unique mastery of the major languages of
Europe, and this gives him the potential for a reinterpretation of
Mannheim that reveals the author to be a talented thinker in his
own right, and not simply a chronicler of the work of others. His
final chapter on Mannheim, comparing him with Lukacs as well as
Marx, is central to our understanding of sociology. In raising the
importance of the role of consciousness in the study of society,
Mannheim overcame what Marx and Engels, no less than many of his
followers understood to be an essential weakness in the so-called
economic interpretation of history. This book, linking Mannheim to
the Hungarian climate, helps us appreciate how this sociological
synthesis came about in a specific social setting. Joseph Gabel was
born in Hungary, and educated in French universities. He is the
author of False Consciousness (1962); Sociology of Alienation
(1970); Ideologies, Vol. I (1974); Ideologies II (1978), all in
French. His book on The Forms of Estrangement (1964) was published
in German. His shorter articles have appeared in Kolner Zeitschrift
for Soziologie und Sozial-psychologie, and the Newsletter of the
International Society for the Sociology of Knowledge.
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