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Scheler, in his intermediate period, criticized the logical character of the Husserlian reduction, whose method he accused of being under the yoke of an intellectualist paradigm. This constructive criticism takes the form of an inclusion of alogical or emotional intentional acts obeying a “logic of the heart,” which implies an operation of inversion of the primacy, presumed to be traditional and dominant including by Husserl himself, of knowledge over affectivity, and in particular over “love.” In Scheler’s later works, the “logic of the heart” continues to command the method and the practice of the reduction, because the function of the “heart” is amplified in the movement of conversion specific to the phenomenological reduction reinterpreted as an “ascetic reduction.”