Category: Scheler, Max

Max Scheler describes a form of ressentiment that leads to "indiscriminate criticism without any positive aims." (Ressentiment, ed. Coser, Schocken 1972, p. 51) Although Scheler was writing in theyears before the First World War, his description put me in mind of contemporary liberals and leftists, especially when they are out of power. He continues: This…