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6.2.1. Early Influences
Mannheim, who was born in Budapest, a Central European city where German cultural influences were predominant, spent his formative years in Hungary and Germany during a period of extraordinary social and intellectual ferment. The period was that of the First World War and the chaotic time of revolution and counter-revolution immediately following it. This was a time when, something nobody would have thought possible, suddenly turned out to be real; and what everyone had taken to be reality itself, now stood revealed as an illusion. A complete reorientation and a re-examination of all traditional ideas about reality, all values and all principles were starting to take place during that time. The “front generation” of the First World War derived a great deal of fierce satisfaction from having found out the generation of its fathers, its shams, its smugness, its profound insincerity and self-deception. Such was the psychological climate during and after the First World War, at least in the region of Germany and the Central European area under German cultural dominance (Mannheim, 1952; Stark 1958). 6.2.2. Influences of Marxism The post war psychosocial climate of the time was the underlying influential factor for Manheim’s way of thinking in Germany (and also in Russia). The stimulus of war and defeat led to revolution by the “front generations”. Marxism had a fresh appeal for the 'front generation' of the post First World War era. Even though Mannheim was not an integral Marxist, he combined Marxian elements with many heterogeneous ones; but for him too, the decline of the bourgeoisie and the ascent of the proletariat were the [essential features of the contemporary phase of history.] Mannheim, Karl. (1952). Essays On The Sociology Of Knowledge. Edited By Paul Kecskemeti. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Stark, Werner (1958). The Sociology Of Knowledge: An Essay In Aid Of A Deeper Understanding Of The History Of Ideas. London: Routledge; Glencoe. III. Free Press. |
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Mannheim, who was born in Budapest, a Central European city where German cultural influences were predominant, spent his formative years in Hungary and Germany during a period of extraordinary social and intellectual ferment. The period was that of the First World War and the chaotic time of revolution and counter-revolution immediately following it. It is somewhat difficult for the present generation, accustomed to living in turmoil and amidst constant outbursts of violence, to recapture the impression of elemental upheaval and total collapse which seared itself into the soul of the ‘front generation’ of the First World War. [...] What nobody would have thought possible suddenly turned out to be real; what everyone had taken to be reality itself now stood revealed as an illusion. A complete reorientation was felt to be necessary: a re-examination of all traditional ideas about reality, all values, all principles. [...] That generation of the First World War derived a great deal of fierce satisfaction from having ‘found out’ the generation of its fathers, its shams, its smugness, its profound insincerity and self-deception. [...] Such was the psychological climate during and after the First World War, at least in the region we are talking about: Germany and the Central European area under German cultural dominance. [page 3] The ‘front generations’ of the Western democracies were also disillusioned as a result of the war experience; but their disillusionment was less traumatic and it had not necessarily to be over-compensated by a new, positive faith. In Germany (and also in Russia) the stimulus of war and defeat led to revolution, i.e. to a transition from traumatic disillusionment to extravagant hope. [...] One of these currents was, of course, Marxism, which had a fresh appeal for the ‘front generation’ of the First World War. [page 4] Mannheim was not an integral Marxist; as we shall see, he combined Marxian elements with many heterogeneous ones; but for him too, the decline of the bourgeoisie and the ascent of the proletariat were the essential feature of the contemporary phase of history, and some Marxian theses, such as the ‘ideological’ nature of social thought, represented for him prime examples of a new essential insight that became possible through active participation in the historic process. |
The text by Kecskemeti in the introduction to the 1952 edition of a volume of Mannheim's Essays is taken, slightly reworded, and attributed to Mannheim himself (!) and to Stark. |
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