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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: SOCIAL THEORY Volume 36 KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS This page intentionally left blank KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS The sociology of knowledge dispute Edited by VOLKER MEJA AND NICO STEHR RO Routledge UTLEDG Taylor & Francis Group E LONDON AND NEW YORK First published in 1990 This edition first published in 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 1990 Volker Meja and Nico Stehr All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. 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Knowledge and Politics The sociology of knowledge dispute Edited by Volker Meja and Nico Stehr R O U T L E D G E London and New York First published 1990 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge a division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1990 Volker Meja and Nico Stehr Typeset by LaserScript Limited, Mitcham, Surrey Printed in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham PLC, Chatham, Kent All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Knowledge and politics: the sociology of knowledge dispute. 1. Know ledge - Sociological perspectives I. Meja, Volker Il. Stehr, Nico III. Streit um die Wissenssoziologie. English 306'.42 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data [Streit um die Wissenssoziologie. English. Selections] Knowledge and politics : the sociology of knowledge dispute I Volker Meja and Nico Stehr, eds. p. cm. Translation of: Der Streit um die Wissenssoziologie. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Knowledge, Sociology of. 2. Sociology-Germany. 3. Sociology-Methodology. 4. Mannheim, Karl, 1893-1947. Jdeologie und Utopie. I. Meja, Volker. II. Stehr, Nico. BD175.S8713 1990 306.4'2-dc20 89-70152 CIP ISBN 0-415-02881-7 Contents Preface vii Part one Introduction 1 On the sociology of knowledge dispute Volker Meja and Nico Stehr 3 Part two The Sociology of Knowledge: Early Statements 2 The sociology of knowledge: formal and material problems Max Scheler 17 3 The ideological and sociological interpretation of intellectual phenomena Karl Mannheim 37 Part three The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute 4 Competition as a cultural phenomenon Karl Mannheim 53 5 Discussion of Karl Mannheim's 'Competition' paper at the Sixth Congress of German Sociologists (Zurich, 1928) Alfred Weber, Werner Sombart, Robert Wilbrandt, Emil Lederer, Adolph Lowe, Alfred Meusel, Norbert Elias, Hans Jonas, Paul Eppstein. Summary statement by Karl Mannheim 86 6 On Ideology and Utopia Paul Tillich 107 7 Sociology - and its limits Ernst Robert Curtius 113 8 Problems of sociology in Germany Karl Mannheim 121 9 The sociological method and the problem of truth Herbert Marcuse 129 v Contents 10 A new concept of ideology? Max Horkheimer 140 11 The sociology of knowledge and Marxism Ernst Lewalter 158 12 On the so-caned 'existential connectedness' of consciousness Gunther Anders 183 13 Philosophy and sociology Hannah Arendt 196 14 Sociology or ideology? Hans Speier 209 15 Knowledge and society Karl August Wittfogel 223 16 Ideology and science Eduard Spranger 239 17 The conception of ideology and its vicissitudes Helmuth Plessner 241 18 The sociology of knowledge and epistemology Ernst Griinwald 261 19 The sociology of knowledge and methodology Alexander von Schelling 267 Part four Epilogue 20 Relativism and the sociology of knowledge Nico Stehr and Volker Meja 285 Name index 317 Subject index 322 vi Preface Most of the contributions in this anthology on the sociology of knowledge dispute were first assembled in the German two-volume edition Der Streit um die Wissenssoziologie (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1982). The present English translation is an abbreviated edition, in which several early formulations of a sociology of knowledge (by Wilhelm Jerusalem, Max Adler, Karl Dunkmann, Heinz 0. Ziegler, and Paul Eppstein) have been omitted, together with some essays which specifically address the work of Karl Mannheim (Alfred Meusel, Siegfried Marek, Otto Neurath, Horst Griineberg, Hans Barth). We are grateful to the various translators who provided first translation drafts. We changed most of these drafts considerably in order to achieve some measure of terminological consistency. In spite of serious misgivings about some pub lished translations, we have generally resisted the temptation of editing pre viously published texts, by an editorial note except where indicated or where a changed passage or word is indicated by square brackets. Missing bibliographical information has everywhere been completed without express comment, and English translations have been listed wherever possible. Some quotations from Mannheim's Ideologie und Utopie had to be retranslated, but the corresponding passages from the English translation, Ideology and Utopia, have been indicated in the footnotes in square brackets. In the text, page numbers in parentheses refer first to the 1929 German edition of ldeologie und Utopie, followed by the corres ponding page in the enlarged English edition, Ideology and Utopia, translated by Louis Wirth and Edward Shits (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1936). In spite of repeated efforts, the editors have been unable to locate the copy right holders of the essays by Curtius, Lewalter, and Schelting published in this volume. The literary heirs or trustees of these authors are kindly asked to contact one of the editors. The manuscript was produced by using the facilities of the University of Alberta Computing Services. We are thankful to Laura Hargrave for text processing the manuscript, and to David Kettler, Dieter Misgeld, and Kurt H. Wolff for clearing up some translation difficulties. Kurt H. Wolff has encouraged this project all along, and in a sense he initiated it. This book is therefore vii
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