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Karl Mannheim and Alois Riegl: From Art History to the Sociology of Culture

2010; Oxford University Press; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/9781444324716.ch6

1467-8365

Jeremy Tanner,

Central European national history

Karl Mannheim and Erwin Panofsky took Alois Riegl's concept of Kunstwollen as their point of departure in the development of the sciences of cultural interpretation. This article seeks to elucidate the very different readings of Riegl made by Mannheim and Panofsky, and to show how the sociological appropriation and transformation of the concept of Kunstwollen was central to the development of Mannheim's sociology of knowledge, and in particular to the analysis of 'styles of thought' in his classic study Conservative Thought (1927). The limited reception of Mannheim's synthesis of sociology and art history is interpreted in the intellectual context of Britain immediately after the 1939-45 war. © Association of Art Historians 2009.