TY - BOOK ID - 77901291 TI - Person and polis PY - 1987 SN - 0585057605 9780585057606 1438419066 PB - Albany State University of New York Press DB - UniCat KW - Political science KW - Political psychology. KW - Personalism. KW - Philosophy. KW - Scheler, Max, KW - Person (Philosophy) KW - Individualism KW - Personality KW - Philosophy KW - Mass political behavior KW - Political behavior KW - Politics, Practical KW - Psychology, Political KW - Psychology KW - Social psychology KW - Political philosophy KW - Psychological aspects KW - Scheler, Max, 1874-1928 KW - Scheler, max, 1874-1928 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901291 AB - Martin Heidegger cited him as "the most potent philosophical power ... in all of contemporary philosophy." Ortega y Gasset called him "the first man of genius, the Adam of the new Paradise." Writing at a crucial time in intellectual history, his influence has extended to persons as diverse as Dietrich von Hildebrand, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Karol Wojtyla, Jurgen Habermas, Ernst Bloch, and members of the generation of thinkers that developed in the German universities during the Weimar years. Despite this far-reaching impact, the social theory and philosophy of Max Scheler have never been examined for the significance of their political thought.This book opens the possibility of deriving a contemporary political theory from Scheler's philosophy and social theory, based on his understanding of the person, the community, and the significant new directions these elements suggest. Standing at some distance from modern liberalism, conservatism, and Marxism, both in their bourgeois and Enlightenment varieties, Scheler's personalism has its roots in the rich admixture of life philosophy and phenomenology that gave rise to Martin Heidegger's early philosophy. It is a philosophical anthropology founded on Scheler's own realist phenomenology, sociology of knowledge, and non-formal ethics.The book considers Scheler's many works and includes translations and reviews of unpublished materials. It includes an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary name sources. ER -