These two volumes contain articles from 1926 to 1996, both classic and end-of-millennium literature which are important in understanding the sociology of knowledge. Volume I covers the precursors, and Volume II covers later sociologies of knowledge and the future of the debate. Contributors include A. Comte, E. Durkheim, M. Foucault, S. Freud, M. Halbwachs, K. Mannheim, K. Marx, F. Nietzsche, V. Pareto and K. Popper.
