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 InfoEvanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Descriptionxxvi, 229 pages ; 23 cm
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Uniform titleErkenntnis und Arbeit. English
SeriesNorthwestern 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 noteOriginally published in German in 1926 under the title Erkenntnis und Arbeit.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2020057157
ISBN9780810142695 (paperback)
ISBN9780810142701 (cloth)
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