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Edward Shils, as a graduate student and instructor at the University of Chicago in the late 1930s, accepted the bleak prognosis of Karl Mannheim's Mensch und Gesellschaft im Zeitalter des Umbaus--which an enthralled Shils had translated into English. During the war, however, Shils came to reject Mannheims gloomy, dissensual analysis of modernity. This paper argues that Shils dismissal of Mannheim drew significantly upon a direct and explicit intellectual assault by fellow emigres to England. During the war--even while he maintained regular contact with Mannheim--Shils was exposed to an often vituperative dismissal of Mannheims work by Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek, in the pages of the London School of Economics journal Economica. After the war, when both Popper and Shils joined the LSE faculty--Hayeks affiliation dated to 1931--Shils encounter with their critiques was deepened. And in these early postwar years, Shils became close friends with yet another emigre Mannheim critic, Michael Polanyi. Combined, these sustained and sophisticated criticisms helped wrest Shils from his interwar, Mannheim-friendly intellectual coordinates. |
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| Pooley, Jefferson. "Edward Shils Turn Against Karl Mannheim: The Central European Connection" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p185109_index.html> |
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| Pooley, J. , 2007-08-11 "Edward Shils Turn Against Karl Mannheim: The Central European Connection" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p185109_index.html |
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Abstract: Edward Shils, as a graduate student and instructor at the University of Chicago in the late 1930s, accepted the bleak prognosis of Karl Mannheim's Mensch und Gesellschaft im Zeitalter des Umbaus--which an enthralled Shils had translated into English. During the war, however, Shils came to reject Mannheims gloomy, dissensual analysis of modernity. This paper argues that Shils dismissal of Mannheim drew significantly upon a direct and explicit intellectual assault by fellow emigres to England. During the war--even while he maintained regular contact with Mannheim--Shils was exposed to an often vituperative dismissal of Mannheims work by Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek, in the pages of the London School of Economics journal Economica. After the war, when both Popper and Shils joined the LSE faculty--Hayeks affiliation dated to 1931--Shils encounter with their critiques was deepened. And in these early postwar years, Shils became close friends with yet another emigre Mannheim critic, Michael Polanyi. Combined, these sustained and sophisticated criticisms helped wrest Shils from his interwar, Mannheim-friendly intellectual coordinates. |
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| Edward Shils was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania when Karl Mannheim published Ideologie und Utopie (1929) [Ideology and Utopia]. “I was dimly aware of the great commotion which it set going in Germany ” he recalled years later.1 By 1932 Mannheim was still “terra incognita” to Shils— but this would change dramatically once Shils took up an assistantship under Louis Wirth at the University of Chicago in 1933. Soon after Shils became de facto translator of the |
| and the United States he underestimated no less the ramshackle obduracy of such countries as Great Britain France the Netherlands and the United States in their tenacious devotion to liberal democratic traditions” (229). 113. "Ideology and Utopia by Karl Mannheim” 86 89. 114. Shils: “His continuous insistence that the ‘internalist’ (ideological) view is wrong and his failure to recognize how much of it he himself retained led to his failure to perceive the partial autonomy of intellectual traditions and |
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