Discovering Max Scheler. [Rev.] Malinkin A.N. Kontseptsiya Fenomenologii Maksa Shelera. Sheler vs Gusserl’. [The Concept of Phenomenology by Max Scheler. Scheler vs Husserl.] Moscow: Russkaya Shkola publ., 2019

Abstract

This is a review of a book by Russian philosopher and sociologist A.N. Malinkin about Max Scheler, whose creative heritage he has been studying and translating for many years. The study presents an analysis of Scheler’s phenomenological concept, examined through comparison with the attitudes of the founder of phenomenology Husserl regarding the understanding of such important concepts as scientific knowledge, lack of premise, reduction, intuition. The monograph on a large material, consisting mainly of little-known texts and those not translated to Russian, shows Scheler’s original and fundamental understanding of philosophy, ontology, knowledge, love, man, sociology, society, history. The book by A.N. Malinkin makes it possible to significantly expand one’s understanding of Max Scheler’s philosophy, serving to compensate this philosopher being undeservedly underestimated and revealing its relevance for modern philosophical and socio-humanitarian thought.

Keywords

• m. scheler
• e. husserl
• phenomenology
• contemplation of essence
• personalism
• sociology of knowledge
• method
• criticism of philosophical scientism