Karl Mannheim Quotes on Truth
Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia (1929) presses its sociology of knowledge into a corresponding doctrine of truth that he termed relationism — to be carefully distinguished from relativism. Truth-claims on Mannheim's analysis are inseparable from the historically specific social standpoints from which they are articulated, but this dependence does not entail their cognitive equivalence: some standpoints supply more synoptic, more dynamically corrected, more reflexively accountable cognitive perspectives than others. The framework grounds Mannheim's distinctive proposal of a free-floating intelligentsia whose disengagement from any single class-bound horizon would supply the synthetic perspective the discipline requires.
Quotes
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Attributed to Karl Mannheim:
“The sociology of knowledge is the theory of the social or existential conditioning of thought.”
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Attributed to Karl Mannheim:
“Ideologies are the ideas which serve a particular interest.”
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Attributed to Karl Mannheim:
“Thought, even in its most abstract form, is rooted in the conditions of human existence.”
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Attributed to Karl Mannheim:
“Genuine self-knowledge requires that we understand the social location of our thought.”
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“Once we recognize that all historical knowledge is relational knowledge, and can only be formulated with reference to the position of the observer, we are faced, once more, with the task of discriminating between what is true and what is false in such knowledge.”
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“It may indeed be true that in order to act we need a certain amount of self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. It may also be true that the very form of expression, in which we clothe our thoughts, tends to impose upon them an absolute tone.”
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