Knowledge’s historical determinedness marks its relevance to present human interests, not its invalidity

Evidence

Horkheimer accused Mannheim of clinging to a diluted variant of classical German Idealismbecoming human' as the metaphysical reality upon which the sociology of knowledge was supposed to be able to throw some lightand of presenting all historically and socially determined truths as being equally relative, and thus ideological. The determinedness and limitedness of knowledge are precisely what gives it its significance for the improvement of conditions which are determining and limiting: this was the version of a concrete, existentialist position (although he did not call it this) which Horkheimer was to support emphatically in The Beginnings of the Bourgeois Philosophy of History as well. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 200</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Historical determination of knowledge is evidence of relevance, not of relativity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 200

Broader Connections

• Historical determination of knowledge is evidence of relevance, not of relativity #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 200