Cognition and Work

A Study Concerning the Value and Limits of the Pragmatic Motifs in the Cognition of the World

AvMax Scheler

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Max Scheler’s Cognition and Work (Erkenntnis und Arbeit) first appeared in German in 1926, just two years before his death. The first part of the book offers one of the earliest critical analyses of American pragmatism, an analysis that would come to have a significant impact on the reception of pragmatism in Germany and western Europe. The second part of the work contains Scheler’s phenomenological account of perception and the experience of reality, an account that is as original as both Husserl’s and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenologies of perception. Scheler aims to show that the modern mechanistic view of nature fails to account for the dynamic relation that not only the human being but all living beings have to the environment they inhabit.Available in English translation for the first time, Cognition and Work pushes the boundaries of phenomenology as it is traditionally understood and offers insight into Scheler’s distinct metaphysics. This book is essential reading for those interested in phenomenology, pragmatism, perception, and living beings in their relation to the natural world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-05-30
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:633 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Northwestern University Press
ISBN:9780810142701
Översättare:Zachary Davis

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Max Scheler (1874–1928) was a prominent German philosopher and phenomenologist. He is the author of numerous books, including Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values and The Human Place in the Cosmos, both published by Northwestern University Press.Zachary Davis is an associate professor of philosophy at St. John’s University.

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Along with Scheler’s mature account of perception as a value-laden experience of living beings, this key text contains his complex assessment of the shortcomings and contributions of pragmatism as a form of knowing." —Daniel O. Dahlstrom, author of The Heidegger Dictionary

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsTranslator’s IntroductionI. The ProblemII. The Essence and Meaning of Knowledge and Cognition – The Kinds of KnowledgeIII. The Philosophical PragmatismA. The Two Central Principles of Pragmatism – Historical Sources and Variations of the Pragmatic MovementB. The Errors of Pragmatism1. The Falsification of the Idea of Knowledge2. The Mistaken Ordering of the Reason-Consequence-Relationship of Knowledge and Action3. The Misrecognition of the Difference between Essential Knowledge and Inductive Knowledge4. The Mistaken Axioms of Pragmatic “Logic”C. The Partial Truth of Pragmatism: The Pragmatic Condition of the Formal-Mechanistic Theory of Nature -- Various Views regarding its Epistemic ValueIV. The Pragmatic Method: The methodological-pragmatic standpoint and its meaning for the philosophical interpretation of the mechanistic view of nature. The kinds of knowledge concerning natureV. Concerning the Philosophy of PerceptionA. Perception and Sensation1. Percpetual Content, Sensation, and the Trans-Conscious “Corporeal Images”2. The Relation Between Sensation and Perception – the Drive-Motor ConditionalityB. Perception and FantasyVI. The Metaphysics of Perception and the Problem of Reality – The Work and the Cognition Possibility of Human BeingsB ManuscriptsRegarding “Cognition and Work”a) The “Spirit” of Pragmatism and the philosophical Concept of the Human Being