本书是德国**社会学家卡尔·曼海姆的成名作，原书*初发表于1929年，本次出版采用的是1936年在英国出版的英译本。本书是一部关于知识社会学的论著，全书共分五个部分：**部分是曼海姆为英译本读者撰写的英文导论，主要介绍了知识社会学研究的现实缘起；第二至第四部分论述知识社会学的主要概念和问题，如思想、知识、意识形态、科学的政治学和乌托邦等问题；第五部分主要论述知识社会学的性质、范围、类型、研究方法等问题。

导 读 I. PRELIMINARY APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM 1. THE SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF THOUGHT 2. THE CONTEMPORARY PREDICAMENT OF THOUGHT 3. THE ORIGIN OF THE MODERN EPISTEMOLOGICAL,PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIOLOGICAL POINTS OF VIEW 4. CONTROL OF THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS AS A PROBLEM OF OUR AGE II. IDEOLOGY AND UTOPIA 1. DEFINITION OF CONCEPTS 2. THE CONCEPT IDEOLOGY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 3. FROM THE PARTICULAR TO THE TOTAL CONCEPTION OF IDEOLOGY 4. OBJECTIVITY AND BIAS 5. THE TRANSITION FROM THE THEORY OF IDEOLOGY TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 6. THE NON-EVALUATIVE CONCEPTION OF IDEOLOGY 7. FROM THE NON-EVALUATIVE TO THE EVALUATIVE CONCEPTION OF IDEOLOGY 8. ONTOLOGICAL JUDGMENTS IMPLICIT IN THE NON-EVALUATIVE CONCEPTION OF IDEOLOGY 9. THE PROBLEM OF FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS 10. THE QUEST FOR REALITY THROUGH IDEOLOGICAL AND UTOPIAN ANALYSIS III. THE PROSPECTS OF SCIENTIFIC POLITICS: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PRACTICE 1. WHY IS THERE NO SCIENCE OF POLITICS? 2. THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF KNOWLEDGE 3. SYNTHESIS OF THE VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES AS A PROBLEM OF POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY 4. THE SOCIOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF THE “INTELLIGENTSIA” 5. THE NATURE OF POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE 6. THE COMMUNICABILITY OF POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE 7. THREE VARIETIES OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE IV. THE UTOPIAN MENTALITY 1. UTOPIA, IDEOLOGY, AND THE PROBLEM OF REALITY 2. WISH-FULFILMENT AND UTOPIAN MENTALITY 3. CHANGES IN THE CONFIGURATION OF THE UTOPIAN MENTALITY: ITS STAGES IN MODERN TIMES (a) The First Form of the Utopian Mentality: The Orgiastic Chiliasm of the Anabaptists (b) The Second Form of the Utopian Mentality: The Liberal-Humanitarian Idea (c) The Third Form of the Utopian Mentality: The Conservative Idea (d) The Fourth Form of the Utopian Mentality: The Socialist-Communist Utopia 4. UTOPIA IN THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION V. THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 1. THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE (a) Definition and Subdivisions of the Sociology of Knowledge (b) The Sociology of Knowledge and the Theory of Ideology 2. THE TWO DIVISIONS OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE A. THE THEORY OF THE SOCIAL DETERMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE B. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 3. THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE PARTIAL NATURE OF TRADITIONAL EPISTEMOLOGY 4. THE POSITIVE ROLE OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 5. PROBLEMS OF TECHNIQUE IN HISTORICAL-SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 6. A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE BIBLIOGRAPHY 术语汇编与简释