Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber

David Kettler is Research Professor at Bard College and Professor Emeritus in Political Studies and Cultural Studies at Trent University. Recent book publications include 'Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism' (with Volker Meja, 1995), 'Domestic Regimes, the Rule of Law, and Democratic Social Change' (2001), 'Adam Ferguson: Social and Political Thought' (2004) and 'Karl Mannheim's Sociology as Political Education' (with Colin Loader, 2002) Colin Loader is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, USA. Volker Meja is Professor of Sociology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. St. John's, Canada. Recent book publications include 'Society and Knowledge: Contemporary Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge and Science' (2005) and 'The Sociology of Knowledge' (with N. Stehr, 1999). He is the editor with D. Kettler and N. Stehr of the previously unpublished German writings of Karl Mannheim, published in English as 'Structures of Thinking' (1982) and 'Conservatism' (1986). He has also authored 'Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism' (with D. Kettler, 1995) and 'Modern German Sociology' (1987).

• Introduction; Chapter 1 The Challenging Context; Chapter 2 Time and Place; Chapter 3 The Social Structure of Advancement; Chapter 4 The “Intensive Study Group” Around Karl Mannheim; Chapter 5 Norbert Elias and the Sociology of External Forms; Chapter 6 Hans Gerth and Hans Weil; Chapter 7 Käthe Truhel and the Idea of a Social Bureaucracy; Chapter 8 Natalie Halperin and Margarete Freudenthal; Chapter 9 Jacob Katz; Chapter 10 Nina Rubinstein; Chapter 11 Individual Projects and Orphans; Chapter 12 The Unfinished Business Between Karl Mannheim and Max Weber;

'A fascinating and scrupulously executed account of the research programme that Mannheim initiated with his advanced students at Frankfurt in the final years of the Weimar Republic. The authors uncover both sociological work and sociologists neglected in the literature, at the same time providing a stellar exemplar of what the intellectual history of the social sciences might be.' Guy Oakes, Monmouth University, USA 'No one knows Mannheim better, or has more persuasively documented his multi-dimensional greatness, than Volker Meja, David Kettler and Colin Loader. Their new work introduces readers to a network of scholars, many of whom are lost to history, whose lives were touched by Mannheim's personality and his sociology of knowledge. Read this marvellous book and discover a chapter in Weimar sociology that will surprise and inform you.' Peter Baehr, Lingnan University, Hong Kong 'The authors are to be thanked for creating a set of generational linkages - the Weber brothers, Karl Mannheim, Mannheim's students who became emigré academics in the USA and mentors of the next generation of sociologists - and actualizing the recurring dilemmas of the sociological intelligentsia. Place this book on third year reading lists.' Canadian Journal of Sociology ’The world of scholarship owes a large debt to the longstanding efforts of David Kettler and his associates Volker Meja and Colin Loader to deepen our understanding of the work of Karl Mannheim. In a series of books retrieving the intellectual and institutional contexts of Mannheim's sociology, and in the spectacular find of the full version of Mannheim's Conservatism manuscript, Kettler and company have done immense service in keeping Mannheim's work alive in Anglophone scholarship. If such a thing as "Mannheim Studies" could be said to exist, it is predominantly sustained by their prodigious exegetical and translation efforts.’ Critical Sociology