Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge

• Main Author: Scheler, Max
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 1980; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: ars; inveniende; Knowledge, Sociology of; metaphysical; natura; natural; naturans; positive; psychic; science; Social epistemology; Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology of Religion; technique; Vital Drive; Anthropoid Apes; metaphysical; Group Soul; Cultural Sociology; technique; Vice Versa; Mere Sums; Faustian Man; Homo Religiosus; Positive Science; Functional Apparatus; Logical Ideal Types; Great Asian Cultures; psychic; Psychic Technique; Stable Life Community; Real Factors; natura; ars; Phenomenological Sociology; natural; Parallel Coordinations; inveniende; positive; Roundabout; Pope Paul III; Super Structure; Positive Systems; Concrete Moral Acts; Spiritual Structures; science; Spiritual Potencies; Ideal Person Type; naturans
• ISBN: 9780415628402; 9780415623346; 0415623340; 0415628407
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203100936

First Published in 1980, Manfred S. Frings' translation of Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge makes available Max Scheler's important work in sociological theory to the English-speaking world. The book presents the thinker's views on man's condition in the twentieth-century and places it in a broader context of human history. This book highlights Scheler as a visionary thinker of great intellectual strength who defied the pessimism that many of his peers could not avoid. He comments on the isolated, fragmented nature of man's existence in society in the twentieth century but suggests that a 'World-Age of Adjustment' is on the brink of existence. Scheler argues that the approaching era is a time for the disjointed society of the twentieth-century to heal its fractures and a time for different forms of human knowledge to come together in global understanding.