Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction

PROF. MANNHEIM'S book, we may prophesy, is likely to become the planners' bible, for nowhere else can one find such a complete, up-to-date and well-reasoned analysis of the inevitability of planning, good and bad, and of its techniques. It is, however, more than this rather irreverent comparison would suggest. It is a compendium of modern sociological fact and theory, abundantly documented, woven round the central theme of the planned world's dawning.Man and Society in an Age of ReconstructionStudies in Modern Social Structure. By Karl Mannheim. With a Bibliographical Guide to the Study of “Modern Society”. Translated from the German by Edward Shils. Pp. xxii + 469. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1940.) 16s. 6d. net.