A new edition of Karl Mannheim's classic work in which the concepts of `ideology' and `utopia' are examined as opposing and dominant societal influences.
`It is a contribution of the first importance to the understanding of our distressed world. Scholarly in form, built upon a wide command of the relevant material, there is hardly a page on which illumination is not to be found. This is undoubtedly one of that rare class of books which shape the course of intellectual debate' - Harold Laski