Rebuilding the Times and Society: A Study of Modern Social Structures

Author: Karl Mannheim
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: This book is one of Karl Mannheim's important works. It discusses the crisis of liberalism and democracy from the perspectives of the European continent and Anglo-Saxon societies, proposing the conflict between the laissez-faire principle and the principle of unplanned regulation as the main reasons for the maladjustment of modern society. From the psychological needs related to society and history, it explores the significance of the era of social reconstruction. The rational and irrational factors in contemporary society, the social causes of cultural crises, issues of crisis, dictatorship, and war, and the like, are the focus of this book. Among these, when discussing the two ways in which society influences culture, the role and nature of social elites, the interrelationship between social disintegration and personality disorganization, and certain self-evident beliefs about human nature, etc., are particularly thought-provoking.