What is intelligible in history can be formulated only with reference to problems and conceptual constructions which themselves arise in the flux of historical experience. (Karl Mannheim)

What is intelligible in history can be formulated only with reference to problems and conceptual constructions which themselves arise in the flux of historical experience.

Karl Mannheim

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