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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scheler, Max, 1874-1928, author.
- Series:
- Studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy.
- Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Series
- Standardized Title:
- Erkenntnis und Arbeit. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Pragmatism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "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.
- 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".
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-4270-8
- OCLC:
- 1246553801
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