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"Max Scheler (1874-1928) decisively influenced German philosophy in the period after the First World War, a time of upheaval and new beginnings. Without him, the problems of German philosophy today, and its attempts to solve them would be quite inconceivable. What was new in his philosophy was that he used phenomenology to investigate spiritual realities. The subject of On the Eternal in Man is the divine and its reality, the originality and non-derivation of religious experience. Scheler shows the characteristic quality of that which is religious. It is a particular essence that cannot be reduced to anything else. It is a sphere that belongs essentially to humankind; without it we would not be human. If genuine fulfillment is denied it, substitutes come into being. This religious sphere is the most essential, decisive one. It determines man's basic attitude towards reality and in a sense the color, extent and position of all the other human domains in life. It forms the basis for various views about life and thought. Scheler was emphatically an intuitive philosopher. In Scheler's work the break between being as the almighty but blind rage and value as the knowing but powerless spirit-has become complete, and makes of each human a split being. Personal experiences may be reflected here. The development of Scheler's work as a whole was highly dependent on his personal experiences. It is this that gives Scheler's work its liveliness and its validity."--Provided by publisher.

Shame and Feelings of Modesty -- The "Location" of the Feeling of Shame and Man's Way of Existing -- I. The Preconditions for the Occurrence of Shame of the Body -- II. Shame and Related Feelings -- III. Basic Forms of the Feeling of Shame and Theories of its Origin -- IV. The Sexual Feeling of Shame and its Function -- V. Psychic and Bodily Feeling of Shame in Man and Woman -- Repentance and Rebirth -- Exemplars of Person and Leaders -- I. Some General Comments concerning Personal Exemplars and Leaders -- II. The Mind of the Person in the Formation of Human Groups. The Vehicles of the Effectiveness of Personal Exemplars (The Formation of Fate). Models of Personal Exemplars -- III. The Saint -- IV. The Genius -- V. The Hero -- VI. The Leading Mind of Civilization -- VII. The Master in the Art of Living -- Bibliography of English Translations of the Works of Max Scheler.