Ideology and Utopia

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Ideology and Utopia (German: Ideologie und Utopia) is a 1929 book written by Karl Mannheim.[1] One of his main ideas regarding utopias is what he considers the "utopian mentality", which Mannheim describes in four ideal types:

  1. orgiastic chiliasm
  2. liberal humanist utopias
  3. the conservative idea
  4. modern communism
  1. ^ Cashmore, Ellis (1999). Dictionary of Cultural Theorists. New York: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. pp. 338–340.