Cognition and work a study concerning the value and limits of the pragmatic motifs in the cognition of the world / Max Scheler ; translated from the German by Zachary Davis.
| Author/creator | Scheler, Max |
| Other author | Davis, Zachary, 1972- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021. |
| Description | xxvi, 229 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Erkenntnis und Arbeit. English |
| Series | Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy. ^A15629 |
| Contents | The Problem -- The Essence and Meaning of Knowledge and Cognition: The Kinds of Knowledge -- Philosophical Pragmatism -- The Pragmatic Method -- Concerning the Philosophy of Perception -- The Metaphysics of Perception and the Problem of Reality: The Work and the Cognition Potential of Human Beings -- Appendix: Manuscripts regarding Cognition and Work -- The "Spirit" of Pragmatism and the Philosophical Concept of the Human Being -- Pragmatism and More Recent Natural Science -- Simultaneous Grounding of the Theory of Perception and the Theory of Formal-Mechanistic Natural Science -- "The Pragmatist, the Idealist-and the Wise". |
| Abstract | "In Cognition and Work, Max Scheler offers an early critique of American pragmatism and demonstrates the dynamic relation that not only the human being but all living beings have to the environment they inhabit"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Originally published in German in 1926 under the title Erkenntnis und Arbeit. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020057157 |
| ISBN | 9780810142695 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780810142701 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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