Reinhart Koselleck’s Conceptual History and the Question of Utopia in Sociology Cover Image

Reinhart Koselleck fogalomtörténete és az utópia problémája a szociológiában
Reinhart Koselleck’s Conceptual History and the Question of Utopia in Sociology

Author(s): Ákos Huszár
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: KORALL Társadalomtörténeti Egyesület
Keywords: Sociology; theory of Sociology; social history; historiography; Koselleck; Mannheim; Comte; Wallerstein

Summary/Abstract: The first part of this study presents Reinhart Koselleck’s method of history of ideas that will sustain the statement that Koselleck’s approach is a suitable research aid in the history of theory and history of sociology. By the historical analysis of the idea of utopia, the second, longer part of the study will show that compared to sociological theories of modern times, 20th century experts of the discipline treat time differently. While with Comte and Engels expectations of the future are distanced from experience and their science is constructed in opposition to utopia with the aim of organizing the future, Mannheim’s idea of utopia projects the image of an already completed society reproducing itself unchanged.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 15-16
  • Page Range: 89-116
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Hungarian