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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Karl Mannheim

Born: March 27, 1893
Died: January 9, 1947 (aged 53)
Bio: Karl Mannheim was a Hungarian-born social philosopher and sociologist, influential with his development of the sociology of knowledge.
Known for:
- Ideology and Utopia (1936)
- Diagnosis of our time (1943)
- Man and society in an age of reconstruction (1940)
- From Karl Mannheim
- Sociology as Political Education
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