http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=3536 On the intersection of libraries, politics, and culture Mon, 20 May 2013 16:02:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=3536&cpage=1#comment-1263766 Rory Litwin Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:07:49 +0000 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=3536#comment-1263766 I just want to point out that Mannheim’s essay (Mannheim was an important sociologist) was largely about European intellectual history and how these “styles of thought” developed differently because of the different historical situations in different European countries. The fact that Germany never had a revolution that was inspired by Enlightenment thought was part of his explanation for why Enlightenment responses to traditionalism were weak there.

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