Selective Profiling

I CAN see how one might struggle to understand why the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, maintained by what is described as the fifth most important university in the world, can produce a 14,333-word text on the German intellectual Max Scheler (1874–1928) and yet still fail to mention his important 1913 work, Ressentiment. Even the veritable Ministry of Truth that is Wikipedia devotes a total of 4,214 words to that text alone, so it is not difficult to guess why something they describe as “Scheler's darkest as well as his most psychological and sociological of topics” has been so conveniently overlooked by their Californian counterparts. Ressentiment, a topic explored in Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) some twenty-six years earlier, perfectly describes much that is wrong with the contemporary world and that includes the deceitful behaviour undertaken by the academic gatekeepers of modern philosophy itself.