On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings.

One of the pioneers of modern sociology, Max Scheler (1874- 1928) ranks with Max Weber, Edmund Husserl, Ernst Troeltsch as being among the most brilliant minds of his generation. Yet Scheler is now known chiefly for his philosophy of religion, despite his groundbreaking work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of emotions, phenomenological sociology. This volume comprises some of Scheler's most interesting work-including an analysis of the role of sentiments in social interaction, a sociology of knowledge rooted in global social cultural comparisons, a cross-cultural theory of values-and identifies some of his important contributions to the discussion of issues at the forefront of the social sciences today. Editor Harold J. Bershady provides a richly detailed biographical portrait of Scheler, as well as an incisive analysis of how his work extends integrates problems of theory method addressed by Durkheim, Weber, Parsons, among others. Harold J. Bershady, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Ideology Knowledge the editor of Social Class and Democratic Leadership. Heritage of Sociology series