Mannheim,K.

Man and society in an age of reconstruction. Studies in modern social structure. With a bibliographical guide to the study of modern society. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company 1940. 8°. XXII, 469 PP. OLn. with OU. (Dust jacket with wear, best. and somewhat rubbed). NDB XVI, 67 ff. Ziegenfuß II, 116 f. - First American edition; the original English edition appeared in London the same year. - Expanded English edition of "Man and Society..." (Leiden 1935). - The eminent Hungarian-German sociologist and philosopher K. Mannheim (1893-1947), teacher of Husserl, Heidegger, Simmel, and others, emigrated to London via Amsterdam and Paris in 1933. "From 1941 he was additionally Lecturer at the Institute of Education of the University of London, which appointed him to a newly created chair of Sociology of Education in October 1945. From 1938 M. became involved in a group of Anglican Presbyterian men, including in particular Joseph H. Oldham, William Temple, John Middleton Murray, T. S. Eliot, Adolph Löwe, H. A. Hodges, Fred Clarke, Alex Vidler, and Michael Polany, called "The Moot," which was concerned with the meaning of religion in future society. ... M.'s enduring importance lies in his contributions to the founding of the sociology of knowledge and in his development into a representative cultural and social critic of his time and an intellectual analyst of modern democracy" (D. Käsler in NDB). - "Although, in M.'s view, the sociology of knowledge is an empirical science of facts, which has as its research topic the real thinking of groups of people, nevertheless certain insights follow from it, which a new epistemology cannot bypass" (W. Ziegenfuss). - Contemp. Ownership note on front cover, good copy.