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The truth in Hell and other essays on politics and culture, 1935-1987

These essays by one of the pioneers of sociology are grouped in five categories: social theory, war and militarism, public opinion and propaganda, the history of literature, and "the present and the future".
Print Book, English, ©1989
Oxford University Press, New York, ©1989
xxi, 358 pages ; 22 cm
9780195058758, 0195058755
18948084
Karl Mannheim as sociologist of knowledge
Honor and social structure
Militarism in the eighteenth century
Ludendorff : the German concept of total war
Risk, security, and modern hero worship
The changing function of communication
The rise of public opinion
Psychological warfare
The communication of hidden meaning
Shakespeare's The tempest
Simplicissimus, the irreverent man
Courage, the adventuress
The Fool and the social order
The truth in Hell : Maurice Joly and The protocols of the wise men of Zion
The mills of death
Firesotrms
"Reeducation", the U.S. policy
Karl Jaspers on the futute of Germany
The chances for peace
Two essays translated from the German
Two essays translated from the German