Challenging historicist utopianism
Karl Popper’s criticism of Karl Mannheim
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6427355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Hammersley (0000-0001-6842-6276, The Open University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 847-865 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01916599.2024.2437376 |
| OpenAlex | W4405366729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
In his critique of historicism and utopian social engineering, Karl Popper treats various writers – notably, Plato, Hegel, and Marx – as expounding these mistaken ideas, and as illustrating the threat they pose to ‘the open society’. Among contemporaries, one of those he singles out for criticism is the sociologist Karl Mannheim. While he spends relatively little time discussing Mannheim’s work compared to that of Plato and Marx, I argue that Ideology and Utopia and Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction may have had particular significance for Popper. I examine his evaluation of Mannheim’s work, assessing its accuracy, and what it reveals about the similarities and fundamental differences in the orientations of these two writers, both of whom had a significant impact upon social science in the twentieth century
Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Historicism · Karl popper · Literature · German Social Sciences and History · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Philosophy, Science, and History
Essays on the sociology of knowledge.
Plato's earlier dialectic
The Philosophy of Karl Popper
History, Man, and Reason
The German Historicist Tradition
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Mannheim’s Sociology of Knowledge
Ideology and Utopia
The sociology of knowledge and epistemology
Karl Popper
What is an ‘open society’? Bergson, Strauss, Popper, and Deleuze
Karl Mannheim and Alois Riegl
Popper, Hayek, and the Poverty of Historicism Part I
Aristotle's Concept of Dialectic
Action Research and Minority Problems
The Poverty of Historicism, I
Sociology as Political Education
Karl Mannheim's Sociology as Political Education
Planning versus the market
Historism. The Rise of a New Historical Outlook
Two Meanings of Historicism in the Writings of Dilthey, Troeltsch, and Meinecke
Historicism
On the Role of Values in Social Research
Soul and Culture
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |