Hayek saw Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge as a dangerous form of scientism.

Evidence

Similarly for Hayek, Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge was the latest avatar of “scientism” where the comprehension of the mechanisms of thought would allow the theoretician to predict its development. The “constitutional limitations of the individual mind” proposed by Hayek as the foundation of spontaneous orders solved the problem of coordination and integration that Mannheim was hinting at with his scientific planning. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 88

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader chapter argument that early neoliberals built an epistemology against planning/scientism — useful for mapping intellectual lineage in the reader’s austerity study. — connects to: Karl Mannheim shifted from emancipatory sociology to elitist planning for freedom — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 86; Neoliberals adopted Mannheim’s elitist sociology of knowledge while denouncing it. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 89; The sociology of knowledge predates Said and traces to Marx, Mannheim, and Scheler — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 486

Broader Connections

• The sociology of knowledge predates Said and traces to Marx, Mannheim, and Scheler #expands (0.82) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 486