Ideology and Utopia Author:Karl Mannheim Unlike other sociological-historical studies of recent years, this book is not concerned with the decline or the death of western civilization but rather with its manner of survival. Here is an analysis of the fictions (the "ideologies") that are used to stabilize as octal order, and the wish-dreams (the "utopias") that are employed when any tr... more »ansformation of that same order is attempted. Here, in short, is a penetrating study of the myths by which society lives and evolves.« less