Cognition and Work: A Study Concerning the Value and Limits of the Pragmatic Motifs in the Cognition of the World – PDF

Max Scheler’s Cognition and Work, (PDF) first appeared in German in 1926, only two years earlier than his dying. The first half of the ebook gives one of the earliest vital analyses of American pragmatism, an analysis that will come to have a vital affect on the reception of pragmatism in Germany and western Europe. The second half of the work contains Scheler’s phenomenological account of notion and the expertise of actuality, an account that’s as authentic as each Merleau-Ponty and Husserl’s phenomenologies of notion. Scheler intends to point out that the fashionable mechanistic view of nature fails to account for the dynamic relation that not only the human being however all dwelling beings should the surroundings they reside. Available in English translation for the first time, Cognition and Work: A Study regarding the Value and Limits of the Pragmatic Motifs in the Cognition of the World pushes the boundaries of phenomenology as it’s historically understood and gives perception into Scheler’s distinct metaphysics. This ebook is important studying for these in phenomenology, notion, pragmatism, and dwelling beings in their relation to the pure world.

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“Together with Scheler’s mature account of notion as a worth-laden expertise of dwelling beings, this key textual content comprises his sophisticated evaluation of the shortcomings and contributions of pragmatism as a kind of understanding.” —Daniel O. Dahlstrom, writer of The Heidegger Dictionary NOTE: The product only contains the ebook, Cognition and Work in PDF. No access codes are included.