СМИСАО И ФУНКЦИЈА МАНХАЈМОВЕ СОЦИОЛОГИ ЈЕ ЗНАЊА: НОВО ТУМАЧЕЊE
MEANING AND FUNCTION OF MANNHEIM'S SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE: A NEW INTERPRETATION

Summary/Abstract: In th article author offers a new interpretation of Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge given in his Ideology and Utopia (1929). This is demonstrated contrary to well known critical works so far, especially froma marxist perspective. As a paradigm of unsuccesfull critique due to ideological blindeness author points out the works of authors from Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Marcuse, Adorno). Then author gives analysis amed to provide argument in favor of necessity to formulate new concept of ideology, after expansion of ideology on the topos of Mannheim’s general total cenocept of ideology wherefore sociolоgy of knowledge ought to arise. After that topic of analysis is epistemological neutrality as a condition of objective invastigation in the history of ideas. Both topics provide the ground for new look at ideology with two special traits: first, ideolog could contain truths, therefore it isno more „false consciousness” (Marx); second, approach of sociology of knowledge to any idea does not mean to discredit it but to analyse it objectivelly with the aim to obtain wider knowledge.

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