Max Scheler's Cognition and Work first appeared in German in 1926, just two years before his death. The first part of the book offers one of the earliest critical analyses of American pragmatism. The second part of the work contains Scheler's phenomenological account of perception and the experience of reality.

Acknowledgements Translator’s Introduction I. The Problem II. The Essence and Meaning of Knowledge and Cognition – The Kinds of Knowledge III. The Philosophical Pragmatism A. The Two Central Principles of Pragmatism – Historical Sources and Variations of the Pragmatic Movement B. The Errors of Pragmatism 1. The Falsification of the Idea of Knowledge 2. The Mistaken Ordering of the Reason-Consequence-Relationship of Knowledge and Action 3. The Misrecognition of the Difference between Essential Knowledge and Inductive Knowledge 4. The Mistaken Axioms of Pragmatic “Logic” C. The Partial Truth of Pragmatism: The Pragmatic Condition of the Formal-Mechanistic Theory of Nature -- Various Views regarding its Epistemic Value IV. The Pragmatic Method: The methodological-pragmatic standpoint and its meaning for the philosophical interpretation of the mechanistic view of nature. The kinds of knowledge concerning nature V. Concerning the Philosophy of Perception A. Perception and Sensation 1. Percpetual Content, Sensation, and the Trans-Conscious “Corporeal Images” 2. The Relation Between Sensation and Perception – the Drive-Motor Conditionality B. Perception and Fantasy VI. The Metaphysics of Perception and the Problem of Reality – The Work and the Cognition Possibility of Human Beings B Manuscripts Regarding “Cognition and Work” a) The “Spirit” of Pragmatism and the philosophical Concept of the Human Being

Along with Scheler’s mature account of perception as a value-laden experience of living beings, this key text contains his complex assessment of the shortcomings and contributions of pragmatism as a form of knowing." —Daniel O. Dahlstrom, author of The Heidegger Dictionary