<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>An engrossing account of the remarkable twentieth-century philosopher-sociologist who has been called the Catholic Nietzsche. </b> <p/>John Raphael Staude examines Max Scheler's shifting political and philosophical allegiances and relates them to his highly unconventional private life and to the social and cultural confusion of pre-World War II Germany.