ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the protocols of the joint meetings of the Seminars of Professor Alfred Weber and Dr. Karl Mannheim in Heidelberg in February 21 and 27, 1929. It is a measure of the spirit between Karl Mannheim and Alfred Weber and among their students that the two colleagues organized a joint seminar to discuss issues arising out of their public disagreement at the meetings of the German Sociologial Association the previous year. The document clarifies Mannheim's complex relationship to the "Hegel-Marx" of Lukacs, as well as the nuanced terms of disagreement between him and Weber. Dr. Mannheim explained his position on the question of "relativizing" intellectualism. By "intellectualism" he means a theory of thinking that maintains that correct judgments can be discovered on the basis of something immanent in thought. He introduces the discussion by raising the question of the fate and problem of the irrational in the present, and by giving it the following more precise form.
