Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge

by Max Scheler

Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Spine cocked. Rear pastedown has a 15 cm tear and binding is loose from spine strip. REP and final few pages are creased. Contents are clean and unmarked. AD

Genres: Philosophy, Sociology, Nonfiction

248 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Max Scheler (August 22, 1874, Munich – May 19, 1928, Frankfurt am Main) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Scheler developed further the philosophical method of the founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, and was called by José Ortega y Gasset "the first man of the philosophical paradise." After his demise in 1928, Heidegger affirmed, with Ortega y Gasset, that all philosophers of the century were indebted to Scheler and praised him as "the strongest philosophical force in modern Germany, nay, in contemporary Europe and in contemporary philosophy as such."[1] In 1954, Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II, defended his doctoral thesis on "An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing a Christian Ethics on the Basis of the System of Max Scheler."