Austin Haigler offers this comment and question regarding my
lectures on Mannheim:
“I am really intrigued by Mannheim's distinction that time
consciousness is ideologically encoded. As well as your subsequent ideas
towards space consciousness being likewise. Question, given you had remarked
that the space consciousness ideas you laid out were rough drafts or outlines,
what is the more official take on these two ideas? Any interesting work done by
philosophers or sociologists about the application of them? Or, critique?”
I think Mannheim’s extended discussion of the ideological
encoding of time consciousness is the most brilliant section in one of the best
books of social theory ever written. As
a Kant scholar, I am of course attuned to the idea that space and time are part
of the fundamental structure of experience, and Mannheim was clearly
consciously signifying on Kant [as we say in Afro-American Studies] in that
discussion. In my lectures, I had a go
at trying to construct a parallel ideological critique of our experience of
space. My effort was in the nature of a jeu d’esprit, hardly at the level of
Mannheim’s discussion. I have never
tried to elaborate on it [please feel free], and so far as I know, no one has
ever noticed it in print or discussed it.
If anyone is interested in my idea, you can find it written
out and archived at box.net.
Ah very good. Thanks for the reply. Has subsequent work been done following Mannheim's critique of time consciousness? Or did scholarship mainly concentrate on other aspects of Ideology and Utopia?
ReplyDeleteSeems a shame if not.