Temporizing with Time Wars

Karl Mannheim and Problems of Historical Time

Bibliographic Data

ID4356006
AuthorsDavid Kettler (Bard College, PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000, USA., corresponding author), Colin Loader (4505 Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5020, USA., corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume13
Issue2-3
Pages155-172
Publication date2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x04040739
OpenAlexW2145503146
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited24

Karl Mannheim's orientations to time can be plotted between subjectivist and objectivist extremes. The latter corresponds to social engineering, while the former offers the context in which Mannheim uses Hobbes's primaeval war to imagine the chaotic struggle over time that he hopes to escape. Mannheim's distinctive achievement is 'dynamic sociology', an experimental approach marked by the recognition not only of historicity in social phenomena and concepts but also of the opportunities thereby provided for clarifying meaning on terms congruent with the experiences of contemporary humankind. Mannheim's initial statement of 'dynamic sociology' is refined by his better-known studies of generations, ideologies, and utopias, which specify his awareness of co-existent multiple time worlds. Coordination is left to ad hocmediation. This does not answer Mannheim's deepest fears and wishes, but he has the discipline to settle for less

Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Historicity (philosophy · Ideology · Meaning (existential · Objectivism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Statement (logic · Subjectivism · Critical Theory and Philosophy · German Social Sciences and History · History · Law · Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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