At the same time, however, and owing to both the presence of another prominent sociologist at the Institute, Karl Mannheim, as well as the methodological problem posed by treating objects-like " musical material "-as ciphers of social contradictions, Adorno was compelled to abandon any notion of " value-free " sociology in favor of a form of ideology critique which held on to an idea of truth.

Under the influence of this doctrine, and of Phenomenology, the Hungarian-born German sociologist Karl Mannheim ( 1893 – 1947 ) gave impetus to the growth of the sociology of knowledge with his Ideologie und Utopie ( 1929, translated and extended in 1936 as Ideology and Utopia ), although the term had been introduced five years earlier by the co-founder of the movement, the German philosopher, phenomenologist and social theorist Max Scheler ( 1874 – 1928 ), in Versuche zu einer Soziologie des Wissens ( 1924, Attempts at a Sociology of Knowledge ).

Moreover, Mannheim has developed, and progressed, from the " total " but " special " Marxist conception of ideology to a " general " and " total " ideological conception acknowledging that all ideology ( including Marxism ) resulted from social life, an idea developed by the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

Mannheim points out social class, location and generation as the greatest determinants of knowledge.

In his British phase Mannheim attempted a comprehensive analysis of the structure of modern society by way of democratic social planning and education.

In between, he spent 18 months studying German postwar reconstruction and social policy at universities and research institutes in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Berlin.

* In social thought, Karl Mannheim pioneered the idea of Relationism, in the development of his theories on the Sociology of Knowledge.

A slight format change occurred recently as KRTH added adult contemporary Christmas music from performers such as Mannheim Steamroller, Air Supply, and Barry Manilow.

It is regarded as the forerunner of the modern bicycle and was introduced by Drais to the public in Mannheim in summer 1817 and in Paris in 1818.

This was a spur to having primarily simple parts to play, and in the case of a resident virtuoso group, a spur to writing spectacular, idiomatic parts for certain instruments, as in the case of the Mannheim orchestra.

Dix was a contributor to the Neue Sachlichkeit exhibition in Mannheim in 1925, which featured works by George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Karl Hubbuch, Rudolf Schlichter, Georg Scholz and many others.

Collini was the curator of the " Naturalienkabinett ", or nature cabinet ( a precursor to the modern concept of the natural history museum ), in the palace of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria at Mannheim.

During the reign of Johann Wilhelm ( 1690-1716 ) the Electoral residence was moved to Düsseldorf, before being moved back to Heidelberg in 1718 and then to Mannheim in 1720.

In 1806, Baden was raised to a grand duchy and parts of the former Palatinate including Mannheim became part of the new grand duchy.

The day before Patton was scheduled to leave Europe for a permanent trip back to the U. S., he and his chief of staff, Major General Hobart R. " Hap " Gay, were on a day trip to hunt pheasants in the country outside Mannheim, Germany.

Wehrkreis XII was made up of three subordinate regions: Bereich Hauptsitze Koblenz, Mannheim and Metz.

* Bereich Hauptsitz Mannheim was the headquarters for 10 Unterregion-Hauptsitze, namely Saarlautern, Saarbrücken, St. Wendel, Zweibrücken, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Ludwigshafen ( Rhein ), Mannheim I, Mannheim II and Heidelberg.

The composition of early symphonies was centred on Vienna and Mannheim.

1700 – 1773 ) was Kapellmeister at the court of Mannheim under the Electorship of Karl III Philip.

He later continued studying in Vienna with Georg Joseph Vogler, known as Abbé Vogler, founder of three important music schools ( in Mannheim, Stockholm, and Darmstadt ); another famous pupil of Vogler was Giacomo Meyerbeer, who became a close friend of Weber.

The last " Grand Bazaar " format store was opened in 1976 at Grand ave. and Mannheim road in Franklin Park Il.

Orff's German version, Orpheus, was staged under Orff's direction in 1925 in Mannheim, Germany, using some of the instruments that had been used in the original 1607 performance.

Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing ( full name Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing ) ( 14 August 1840 – 22 December 1902 ) was an Austro – German psychiatrist who was born in Mannheim in Baden, Germany.

Mannheim believed that relativism was a strange mixture of modern and ancient beliefs in that it contained within itself a belief in an absolute truth which was true for all times and places ( the ancient view most often associated with Plato ) and condemned other truth claims because they could not achieve this level of objectivity ( an idea gleaned from Marx ).

The phenomenological tie-in with the sociology of knowledge stems from two key historical sources for Mannheim's analysis: Mannheim was dependent on insights derived from Husserl's phenomenological investigations, especially the theory of meaning as found in Husserl's Logical Investigations of 1900 / 1901 ( Husserl: 2000 ), in the formulation of his central methodological work: " On The Interpretation of Weltanschauung " ( Mannheim: 1993: see fn41 & fn43 )-this essay forms the centerpiece for Mannheim's method of historical understanding and is central to his conception of the sociology of knowledge as a research program ; and The concept of " Weltanschauung " employed by Mannheim has its origins in the hermeneutic philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey, who relied on Husserl's theory of meaning ( above ) for his methodological specification of the interpretive act ( Mannheim: 1993: see fn38 ).

Karl Mannheim was a seminal figure in the study of generations.

By moving down into the plain, the prince-elector was able to construct a new palace, Mannheim Palace, that met his every wish.

He was the most prominent representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim School.

Hailed as one of the brightest hopes of a generation of young composers, Goldschmidt reached the premature climax of his career with the premiere of his opera Der gewaltige Hahnrei in Mannheim in 1932.

The left wing of the Grande Armée would move from Hanover and Utrecht to fall on Württemberg ; the right and centre, troops from the Channel coast, would concentrate along the Middle Rhine around cities like Mannheim and Strasbourg.

The Mannheim School ( including composer Christian Cannabich and conductor Johann Stamitz ) did groudbreaking work that the celebrated Wiener Klassik would later draw upon.

The two largest tributaries come from the right: the Neckar in Mannheim, the Main across from Mainz.

Mannheim had one of the most famous orchestras of that time, where notated dynamics and phrasing, previously quite rare, became standard ( see Mannheim school ).

Two interesting facts in transportation history are that both Karl Drais, the inventor of the bicycle, as well as Carl Benz, the inventor of the car were born in Karlsruhe and that Benz also studied at the city ’ s university ; and that Benz ’ s wife Bertha took the world's first long distance-drive with a car from Mannheim to Karlsruhe-Grötzingen and Pforzheim ( see Bertha Benz Memorial Route ).

According to some sources, in 1949 at 33rd Street and Bunker Hill Road in Mount Rainier lived a child ( see Robbie Mannheim ) who allegedly became possessed by the devil.

Along with Friedrich Hecker, whom he had met in Mannheim, Struve took on a leading role in the revolutions in Baden ( see History of Baden ) beginning with the Hecker Uprising, also accompanied by his wife Amalie.

Parallel to the foundation of Mannheim in 1606, a fortress ( die Rheinschanze ) was built by Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, on the other side of the River Rhine to protect the City of Mannheim, thus forming the nucleus of the city of Ludwigshafen itself.

* 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.

He had a recurring role as " Bill Church Jr ." based upon the character of Moxie Mannheim's son ( Bruno Mannheim ) from the Superman comics on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

By the late 1750s there were flourishing centers of the new style in Italy, Vienna, Mannheim, and Paris ; dozens of symphonies were composed and there were " bands " of players associated with theatres.

Between 1911 and 1913, Broz worked for shorter periods in Kamnik ( 1911-1912, factory " Titan "), Cenkovo, Munich and Mannheim, where he worked for the Benz car factory ; then he went to Wiener Neustadt, Austria, and worked as a test driver for Daimler.

It is also claimed that he died in an asylum in Mannheim in 1905.

In Norse mythology, Miðgarðr became applied to the wall around the world that the gods constructed from the eyebrows of the giant Ymir as a defence against the Jotuns who lived in Jotunheim, east of Mannheim, " the home of men ," a word used to refer to the entire world.

To meet the growing demands of wartime, trucks of Opel design were built under license by Daimler-Benz at the former Benz factory at Mannheim.

Another building by the same architect but which still stands-the " Rosengarten " in Mannheim, has a remarkably similar main facade.

Yet Adorno's attempts to break out of the sociology of music were, at this time, twice thwarted: neither the study of Mannheim he had been working on for years nor extracts from his study of Husserl were accepted by the Zeitschrift.

File: Tiertarock Mannheim ca 1778. jpg | Example of 18th century " Tiertarock " or animal tarot.

In Paris, Mannheim, and Vienna he met with other compositional influences, as well as the avant-garde capabilities of the Mannheim orchestra.

Leading Jewish intellectuals on university faculties included physicist Albert Einstein ; sociologists Karl Mannheim, Erich Fromm, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse ; philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Edmund Husserl ; political theorists Arthur Rosenberg and Gustav Meyer ; and many others.

* December 16 – WWII: Operation Abigail Rachel – RAF bombing of Mannheim.

* August 5 – Berta Benz arrives in Pforzheim, having driven from Mannheim in a car manufactured by her husband Karl Benz, thus completing the first " long-distance " drive in the history of the automobile.

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