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Journal Article
Karl Mannheim and the Intellectual Elite
1971
Overview
Karl Mannheim's work, in particular his conception of the 'free floating intelligentsia,' is explored. The role of the soc'ly unattached intelligentsia is seen as the thread which ties together the various general treatments of intellectual strata Mannheim offered. Mannheim's writings are divided into 4 basic stages: (a) published before 1929-the intelligentsia is seen as relatively unimportant; (b) the appearance of IDE- OLOGY AND UTOPIA-in which the modern intelligentsia is seen as the potential formulators of a pol'al synthesis which would make possible the reconstruction & unification of European society; (c) the early 1930's-during which Mannheim's analysis of the modern intelligentsia becomes much more sci'fic; & (d) Mannheim's last writings, which show increasing pessimism about the possibilities of the modern intelligentsia playing any positive role in soc reconstruction. Here 'democratization of culture' is seen as destroying the peculiar freefloating quality that formerly characterized the intellectual stratum. The methodological implications for modern soc sci of Mannheim's analysis of the unattached intellectual are discussed. Concepts of empathy, marginality, ambivalent motivation, cultural decay, & the idea of the uprooting of an upper stratum are dealt with. In conclusion, it is noted that the 4 stages of Mannheim's analysis of the intelligentsia recapitulate the phases in the thought of Karl Marx to a large extent, & it is said that 'Mannheim tried to do for the intellectuals what Marx had done for the workers.' M. Maxfield.
Publisher
Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. For the London School of Economics,Routledge and Kegan Paul
