Ⅰ．PRELIMINARY APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM 1
1．The Sociological Concept of Thought 1
2．The Contemporary Predicament of Thought 5
3．The Origin of the Modern Epistemological,Psycho-logical and Sociological Points of View 12
4．Control of the Collective Unconscious as a Problem of our Age 30
Ⅱ．IDEOLOGY AND UTOPIA 49
1．Definition of Concepts 49
2．The Concept of Ideology in Historical Perspective 53
3．From the Particular to the Total Conception of Ideology 57
4．Objectivity and Bias 62
5．The Transition from the Theory of Ideology to the Sociology of Knowledge 67
6．The Non-Evaluative Conception of Ideology 74
7．From the Non-Evaluative to the Evaluative Con-ception of Ideology 78
8．Ontological Judgments Implicit in the Non-Evaluative Conception 80
9．The Problem of"False Consciousness" 84
10．The Quest for Reality through Ideological and Utopian Analysis 87
Ⅲ．THE PROSPECTS OF SCIENTIFIC POLITICS:The Relationship between Social Theory and Political Practice 97
1．Why is there no Science of Politics? 97
2．The Political and Social Determinants of Knowledge 104
3．Synthesis of the Various Perspectives as a Problem of Political Sociology 130
4．The Sociological Problem of the"Intelligentsia" 136
5．The Nature of Political Knowledge 146
6．The Communicability of Political Knowledge 153
7．Three Varieties of the Sociology of Knowledge 165
Ⅳ．THE UTOPIAN MENTALITY 173
1．Utopia,Ideology,and the Problem of Reality 173
2．Wish-fulfilment and Utopian Mentality 184
3．Changes in the Configuration of the Utopian Mentality:Its Stages in Modern Times 190
(a)The First Form of the Utopian Mentality:The Orgiastic Chiliasm of the Anabaptists 190
(b)The Second Form of the Utopian Mentality:The Liberal-Humanitarian Idea 197
(c)The Third Form of the Utopian Mentality:The Conservative Idea 206
(d)The Fourth Form of the Utopian Mentality:The Socialist-Communist Utopia 215
4．Utopia in the Present Situation 222
Ⅴ．THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 237
1．Its Nature and Scope 237
(a)Definition and Subdivision of the Sociology of Knowledge 237
(b)Sociology of Knowledge and the Theory of Ideology 238
2．The Two Divisions of the Sociology of Knowledge 239
(A)The Theory of the Social Determination of Knowledge 239
(B)Epistemological Consequences of the Sociology of Knowledge 256
Epistemology and the Special Sciences． 261
3．Demonstration of the Partial Nature of Tradi-tional Epistemology 261
(a)Orientation towards Natnral Science as a model of thought 261
(b)Relationship between criteria of truth and the social-historical situation 261
4．Positive Role of the Sociology of Knowledge 262
5．Problems of Technique in Historical-Sociological Research 275
6．A Brief Survey of the History of the Sociology of Knowledge 278
BIBLIOGRAPHY 281
INDEX OF NAMES 305
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 307