THE NATURE OF SYMPATHY

Scheler, Max

ISBN 10: 0710067968 / ISBN 13: 9780710067968

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, London, 1954

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General introduction by W. Stark. Translated from the German by Peter Heath. 1970 reprint. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with delivery confirmation. A volume in the Rare Masterpieces of Philosophy and Science series. The dust jacket has been price-clipped. Previous owner's signature, address and date (January, 1973) in ink on the front fly-leaf. The dust jacket is rubbed and creased at the extremities. There is also a small hole in the dust jacket seam between the front jacket cover and the spine panel. The jacket backcover has a scribble in blue ink as well as a couple stains. There are scattered ink underlining, margin notes and markings in the text as well as a small notation at the top of the back inside cover. ; Rare Masterpieces of Philosophy and Science; 8vo.; 274 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE NATURE OF SYMPATHY
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, London
• Publication Date: 1954
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 0710067968
• ISBN 13: 9780710067968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • 11/2015

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Synopsis

The Nature of Sympathy explores, at different levels, the social emotions of fellow-feeling, the sense of identity, love and hatred, and traces their relationship to one another and to the values with which they are associated. Scheler criticizes other writers, from Adam Smith to Freud, who have argued that the sympathetic emotions derive from self-interested feelings or instincts. He reviews the evaluations of love and sympathy current in different historical periods and in different social and religious environments, and concludes by outlining a theory of fellow-feeling as the primary source of our knowledge of one another.A prolific writer and a stimulating thinker, Max Scheler ranks second only to Husserl as a leading member of the German phenomenological school. Scheler's work lies mostly in the fields of ethics, politics, sociology, and religion. He looked to the emotions, believing them capable, in their own quality, of revealing the nature of the objects, and more especially the values, to which they are in principle directed.