Böcker av Volker Meja

Science increasingly influences the political agenda in modern societies. Consequently, a new political field has emerged: knowledge politics. These fourteen essays by social scientists, philosophers, and historians cover fundamental issues, theoretical perspectives, knowledge and power, and empirical studies.

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.

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