Max Scheler in Dialogue

This volume explores Max Scheler's role within the philosophical and sociological debates of his time into the 21st century. Scheler was an interpreter, a transmitter of, and respondent to the philosophical and sociological tradition. He was an interlocutor for his contemporaries, and an inspiration for subsequent and current debates in philosophy, psychology, and political thought.Both young and established scholars shed light on central and less investigated aspects of Scheler's thought, such as the question of moral facts, personal individuality, cosmopolitanism, and opportunities for intercultural understanding. The contributors delve into Scheler's influence on thinkers such as Tischner or Løgstrup, as well as his role as a key figure within Catholic thought. The book appeals to students and researchers while exploring how engaging with Scheler can benefit contemporary debates on embodiment, psychopathology, and value pluralism.

Sheds new light on Scheler's lesser discussed ideas such as cosmopolitanism and the tragic Brings together the research of both established and young scholars working on Max Scheler within the intellectual context of his philosophy The first edited collection in English on Max Scheler since 1974

Autorentext

Susan Gottlöber completed her Magister and PhD studies at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Maynooth University, Ireland, and served as the President of the Irish Philosophical Society from 2015 to 2018. Her main research interests are philosophical anthropology with a focus on inter-subjectivity, individuality, embodiment, and human nature in relation to technology. Her work also focuses on philosophy of toleration and value theory.

Klappentext

This volume explores Max Scheler s role within the philosophical and sociological debates of his time into the 21st century. Scheler was an interpreter, a transmitter of, and respondent to the philosophical and sociological tradition. He was an interlocutor for his contemporaries, and an inspiration for subsequent and current debates in philosophy, psychology, and political thought.Both young and established scholars shed light on central and less investigated aspects of Scheler s thought, such as the question of moral facts, personal individuality, cosmopolitanism, and opportunities for intercultural understanding. The contributors delve into Scheler s influence on thinkers such as Tischner or Løgstrup, as well as his role as a key figure within Catholic thought. The book appeals to students and researchers while exploring how engaging with Scheler can benefit contemporary debates on embodiment, psychopathology, and value pluralism.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Part One: New Perspectives.- 1 Chapter: Max Scheler and Concepts of the Tragic in European Philosophy of the Twentieth Century.- 2 Chapter: Scheler's Anti-Representationalism: from Moral Illusions to Moral Facts.- 3 Chapter: Individual Destiny and Readiness for Self-Reorchestration. Exemplariness and Repentance as Overriding Keys to the Formation of Individuality.- 4 Chapter: The World as 'Representation'. Scheler's Philosophy of Psychopathology.- 5 Chapter: From Nationalism to Cosmopolitanism: Scheler's Political Trajectory.- Part Two: Max Scheler as Interlocutor.- 6 Chapter: Value and Norm: Max Scheler's Material Value Ethics in Comparison with Windelband's Transcendent Value Philosophy Pluralis.- 7 Chapter: Erich Przywara's Critique of Max Scheler's Philosophy of Religion.- 8 Chapter: A Manner Completely Incomparable to Every Knowledge Based on Experience. Scheler and Heidegger on the Philosophical Problem of Aging and Death.- 9 Chapter: K.E. Løgstrup's Critique of Scheler's Ethics 1932 and Beyond.- Part Three: Max Scheler and Contemporary Thought.- 10 Chapter: The Redemption of Feeling: Non-Formal Ethics and Value Pluralism.- 11 Chapter: 'Das Schema unseres Leibes'. Scheler's Forgotten Influence on the Contemporary Debate About Embodiment.- 12 Chapter: 'Ausgleich and Allmensch in Confrontation with Contemporary Thought'.- 13 Chapter: On The So Called 'Clash of Civilizations': Value Pluralism in the Light of Phenomenology.