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This first non-evaluative insight into history does not inevitably lead to relativism, but rather to relationism.

— Karl Mannheim Ideology and Utopia (1929)

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Bureaucratic thought does not deny the possibility of the science of politics, but regards it as identical with the science of administration.

Ideology and Utopia (1929)

The thought of every group is seen as arising out of its life conditions.

Ideology and Utopia (1929)

There are two separate and distinct solutions to the problem of what constitutes reliable knowledge — the one solution may be termed relationism, and the other relativism.

Ideology and Utopia (1929)

It has become extremely questionable whether, in the flux of life, it is a genuinely worthwhile intellectual problem to seek to discover fixed and immutable ideas or absolutes.

Ideology and Utopia (1929)

All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower.

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