About the book: 2011 / The main part of the volume consists of "Problems of the sociology of knowledge" (1924–1926) - the main philosophical and sociological work of the “late” Max Scheler, recognized founder and classic of the German “sociology of knowledge”. Rejecting the project of sociology of O. Comte, Scheler makes a heroic attempt to start sociology “from the beginning” - as opposed to positivism as “the ideology of late industrialism specific to Western Europe.” The basis of Scheler’s teachings is formed by his socio-philosophical doctrine of the three types of human knowledge, the core of which is the philosophical and anthropological concept of scientific (positive) knowledge, which determines its special status and significance among other types of knowledge, as well as the place and role of science in culture and modern society The philosophical and historical dimension of M. Scheler’s “sociology of knowledge” is revealed in his visionary interpretation of the synthesis of Western and Asian cultures of knowledge as a therapy against the civilized barbarism of a “Faustian” type of man. The relevance of these ideas of M. Scheler today is undeniable. It is published in full for the first time in Russian. The book is addressed to philosophers, sociologists.