ABSTRACT
ROOTLESS OR SEINSVERBUNDEN? Does the modern intellectual develop his political ideas relatively indep endently of his social location? Or does the intellectual’s social location determine the character of his political ideas to a considerable degree? For half a century, ever since the publication of the essays which comprise Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia, social scientists have deba ted these questions-often heatedly, and without having arrived at any consensus of opinion.
