马克斯·舍勒(Max Scheler,1874—1928)在现代哲学史上占有一个特殊地位。在其并不算长的三十年学术生涯中几乎涉猎了现象学、伦理学、宗教哲学、知识社会学、哲学人类学、形而上学、社会批判和政治思想等现代精神科学的各个领域。尽管舍勒的思想在20世纪20年代末受到广泛赞誉,但由于英年早逝,他的名声就像彗星短暂的光辉很快消褪了。近些年来,舍勒思想在欧美以一种缓慢的速度保持着复苏,其思想的深度和广度也再度受到学界的广泛关注。 Max Scheler (1874-1928) occupies a special place in the history of modern philosophy. In his not too long three decades of academic career, he has covered almost all fields of modern psycho-science such as phenomenology, ethics, religious philosophy, sociology of knowledge, philosophical anthropology, metaphysics, social criticism and political thought. Although Scheler’s ideas were widely acclaimed at the end of the 1920s, his fame soon diminished as the brief glory of a comet because of his premature death. In recent years, Scheler’s thought has maintained a recovery at a slow pace in Europe and the United States. The depth and breadth of its thinking have once again drawn the widespread attention of the academic circles.