本书是一本论述舍勒情感现象学的专著。舍勒是一位著名的现实学哲学家，但作者着重研究舍勒的情感心理现象理论。全书共分11章，详细地介绍了舍勒的生平与学术活动，并总结和梳理了舍勒的思想来源及他现象学的关键概念：情感、价值、格位与爱。然后对具体的情感现象：同情、怨恨、羞感、悔悟、受苦、信仰与宗教行为等分章一一作了细致的心理分析，最后还对当代人的价值意识的转变作了评述，是一本有较高质量的关于现象学的心理学、人类学专著。

In private life we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotional work," just as we manage our outer expressions through surface acting. But what happens when this system of adjusting emotions is adapted to commercial purposes? Hochschild examines the cost of this kind of "emotional labor." She vividly describes from a humanist and feminist perspective the process of estrangement from personal feelings and its role as an "occupational hazard" for one-third of America's workforce.