Ideology, epistemology and work: a new evaluation of Karl Mannheim's third way
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Vulpe, Nicola
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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Universidad de León: Servicio de Publicaciones 1993
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Contextos ISSN 0212-6192 Nº 21-22, 1993, pags. 111-132
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Karl Mannheim's sociology of knowledge represents an attempt to master the irrational in politics through a better understanding of the ideological forces that determine political thinking and action. Fundamental to Mannheim's sociology of knowledge is his epistemology, a methodology for understanding knowledge rather than a theory of knowledge. However, because it proposes a sociological solution to a problem that is both sociological and epistemological, if it is to be developed as a viable approach to politics or a solution to the problem of knowing in the social sciences, Mannheim's third way must be reformulated to include a modern dialectical concept of work. If thought is taken as a specific mode of work it becomes possible to evaluate beliefs in the same manner as other modes of work: according to how effectively they resolve contradictions.