author
Max Scheler
1874–1928
A major early phenomenologist, he wrote vividly about values, emotion, ethics, and what it means to be human. His work helped shape 20th-century philosophy far beyond Germany.
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Deutsches Leben der Gegenwart
by Paul Bekker, Goetz A. (Goetz Antony) Briefs, Max Scheler, Arnold Sommerfeld
About the author
Born in Munich on August 22, 1874, Max Scheler became one of the most influential German philosophers of the early 20th century. He is best known for work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology, and during his lifetime he was widely regarded as an important public intellectual as well as a scholar.
Scheler explored how feelings, values, and moral insight shape human life. Rather than treating emotion as something opposed to reason, he argued that love, resentment, sympathy, and other lived experiences reveal real features of the world and of human relationships. His writings on value, personhood, and society made a lasting mark on both philosophy and the human sciences.
He died in Frankfurt am Main on May 19, 1928. Even now, readers return to his work for its mix of sharp analysis and deep interest in the inner life.