Introduction: A Reading of Karl Mannheim; I: A Review of Georg Lukács’ Theory of the Novel *; II: On the Interpretation of Weltanschauung; III: The Problem of a Sociology of Knowledge; IV: The Ideological and the Sociological Interpretation of Intellectual Phenomena *; V: Conservative Thought; VI: The Problem of Generations; VII: Competition as a Cultural Phenomenon; VIII: Problems of Sociology in Germany; IX: The Democratization of Culture; X: The Crisis of Liberalism and Democracy as Seen from the Continental and Anglo-Saxon Points of View; XI: On the Diagnosis of Our Time; XII: Education, Sociology and the Problem of Social Awareness