Max Scheler’s Acting Persons

Download or read book Max Scheler’s Acting Persons written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers six trenchant new analyses of the idea of the person as raised by the German philosopher and social theorist Max Scheler (1874–1928). The issues raised in the volume are both timely and perennial, from considerations of postmodernity, phenomenology, and metaphysics, to sharp-edged comparisons with other thinkers, including Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Eric Voegelin, Richard Rorty, and Hannah Arendt.