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Ideology, epistemology and work: a new evaluation of Karl Mannheim's third way

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    Vulpe, Nicola
    Main Author:
    Vulpe, Nicola

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
    Form / Genre:
    text (article)
    Published:
    Universidad de León: Servicio de Publicaciones 1993
    In:
    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.


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