Böcker av David Kettler

Focuses on the work of Karl Mannheim by demonstrating how his theoretical conception of a reflexive sociology took shape as a collaborative empirical research program. This book shows how contemporary work along these lines can benefit from the insights of Mannheim and his students into both morphology and genealogy.

In a series of focused studies related to the event that has generated the richest literature in exile studies the intellectual exiles arising out of Nazi rule this volume reconsiders a number of issues raised by that literature, notably the multiple, complex and changing negotiating processes and bargaining structures constitutive of exile, especially as the question of return interplays with the politics of memory.

Karl Mannheim's thought cuts across much of twentieth-century sociology, politics, history, philosophy, and psychology

An introduction to Adam Ferguson's life and thought. The introduction discusses Ferguson's work in relation to his better-known contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith, while the afterword offers an indepth reconsideration of Ferguson's most renowned work, An Essay on the History of Civil Society.

To reflect on Karl Mannheim is to address fundamental issues of political enlightenment Mannheim's driving determination "was to learn as a sociologist by close observation the secret (even if it is infernal) of these new times