Kyung-Man Kim is Professor of Sociology at Sogang University, South Korea. He was a Fulbright scholar twice and is a fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. In 2009, he was awarded the Kyung-Ahm prize, the most prestigious academic prize in South Korea. He has published extensively in leading sociology and philosophy journals and is the author of Discourses on Liberation: An Anatomy of Critical Theory (Routledge 2005), among other books.

Introduction, Part I: Science, Politics and Truth, 1. Exhuming Bourdieu's Sociologized Philosophy of Science, 2. Bourdieu's Sociological Theory of Scientific Truth: Truth and Struggle, 3. What Would a Bourdieusian Sociology of Scientific Truth Look Like?: Two Case Studies, Part II: Reflexivity, Objectivation and Critique, 4. How Objective is Bourdieu's Participant Objectivation?, 5. Cultural Capital and the Social Reproduction of Class: Can There be a Crucial Experiment?, 6. Torn between Science and Politics: Why is Bourdieu's Politics Bound to Fail?, 7. Is Human Science a Curse or Blessing?: Criticism Beyond Bourdieu and Habermas