Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge

by Max Scheler, Manfred Frings (Translator)

This volume presents an exploration of man's condition in the 20th century and places it in a broader context of human history. It comments on the isolated, fragmented nature of peoples existence in society, but suggests that a 'world-age of adjustment' is on the brink of existence.

Genres: Philosophy, Sociology, Nonfiction

266 pages, Paperback

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."