Gurevich, P. S. Diagnosis of Historical Cosmos

Abstract: Are Karl Mannheim’s ideas too old today? Do his sociological principles remain valuable from the point of heuristics? Does his conception reflect all the diversity of social changes and their dynamics? These are very topical issues because sociology and social knowledge have been significantly enriched over the past ten years. Topics covered by the German researcher, either sociology of knowledge or his theory of elites, have an absolutely different meaning today. This is why, since we offer our readers a collection of Karl Mannheim’s works, we ask the question about how the Western sociologist’s conceptions refer to our today’s reality? Karl Mannheim wrote about the epoch of transformations in general and dynamic social reconstruction in particular.

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