Author profile: Henrik Lundberg

Henrik Lundberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His recent international publications include “Philosophical Thought and Its Existential Basis: The Sociologies of Philosophy of Randall Collins and Pierre Bourdieu” (2013) and “‘Science of Science,’ Reason, and Truth: Bourdieu’s Failed Case against Cognitive Relativism” (2012).

Karl Mannheim’s Sociology of Political Knowledge

Henrik Lundberg • Oct 26 2013 • Articles

What does Mannheim actually mean by saying that certain modes of thought need to be understood in terms of their social origin, and why and how does that really matter for political theory?