Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the SOCIOLOGY (740) of Knowledge

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Summary: The leading discipline of the sociology
Review: This translation is not correct as compared with the German version, which uses more abstract terms. However, it doesnft mean its content is less correct. I like this translation more than the German version because it is easier to read.
This book consists of three articles and the prelude. The first chapter is the same as the title of this book and the most interesting. It explains the term of the ideology in the context of the history of the epistemology. This term was derived from Marxism, which exposes the ideal as the legitimization of the individual interest to invalidate it. The sociological explanation inspired by this method, ironically speaking, makes the ontological existence of the class by Marxism relative as the historical production, and regards it as the particular epistemology determined by the history. It is succeeded by the Max Weberfs concept of the stratification, which means the epistemological constitution of the subject of the analysis.
This articlefs aim is to make the concept of the ideology of Marxism more useful by generalizing it. The thesis that the consciousness doesnft determine the social conditions, but that the social conditions do the consciousness applies to anybody without any exceptions. Therefore, this thought is named as ethe sociology of the knowledgef or consciousness.
The necessary for readers is the knowledge of the basic modern epistemology and the basic Marxism. After reading it, we will locate the thought of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Weber under the appropriate historical context and find ethe situational determination e is the primary leading discipline of the sociology.

Rating:
Summary: The leading discipline of the sociology
Review: This translation is not correct as compared with the German version, which uses more abstract terms. However, it doesnft mean its content is less correct. I like this translation more than the German version because it is easier to read.
This book consists of three articles and the prelude. The first chapter is the same as the title of this book and the most interesting. It explains the term of the ideology in the context of the history of the epistemology. This term was derived from Marxism, which exposes the ideal as the legitimization of the individual interest to invalidate it. The sociological explanation inspired by this method, ironically speaking, makes the ontological existence of the class by Marxism relative as the historical production, and regards it as the particular epistemology determined by the history. It is succeeded by the Max Weberfs concept of the stratification, which means the epistemological constitution of the subject of the analysis.
This articlefs aim is to make the concept of the ideology of Marxism more useful by generalizing it. The thesis that the consciousness doesnft determine the social conditions, but that the social conditions do the consciousness applies to anybody without any exceptions. Therefore, this thought is named as ethe sociology of the knowledgef or consciousness.
The necessary for readers is the knowledge of the basic modern epistemology and the basic Marxism. After reading it, we will locate the thought of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Weber under the appropriate historical context and find ethe situational determination e is the primary leading discipline of the sociology.