Ludwig Feuerbach

Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas - lootˈvĭkh ändrāˈäs, 1804–72, German philosopher, educated at Heidelberg and Berlin; son of Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach. At first a Hegelian, he abandoned absolute idealism for naturalistic materialism. He asserted that religious feeling is simply a product of man's yearnings and maintained that the proper study of Read More...

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Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy (1941)
by Frederick Engels. 98 pgs.

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Foreword

I. from Hegel to Feuerbach

Ii. Idealism and Materialism

Iii. Feuerbach's Philosophy of Religion and Ethics

Iv. Dialectical Materialism

Appendices
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Theology, Hermeneutics, and Imagination: The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity (Chap. 4 "Feuerbach: Forgotten Father of the Hermeneutics of Suspicion")
by Garrett Green. 229 pgs.

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This book explores the contemporary crisis of biblical interpretation by examining modern and postmodern forms of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion'. Garrett Green looks at several thinkers who played key roles in creating a radically suspicious reading of the Bible. After Kant, Hamann, and Feuerbach comes Nietzsche, who marked the turn from modern to postmodern suspicion. Green argues that similarities between Derrida's deconstruction and Barth's theology of signs show that postmodern suspicion ought not to be viewed simply as a threat to theology but as a secular counterpart to its own hermeneutical insights. When theology attends to its proper task of describing the grammar of scriptural imagination, it discovers a source of suspicion more radical than the secular, the hermeneutical expression of God's gracious judgement. Green concludes that Christians are committed to the hermeneutical imperative, the never-ending struggle for the meaning of scripture in the hopeful insecurity of the faithful imagination.

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Preface

1: Theological Hermeneutics in the Twilight of Modernity

Part I: The Modern Roots of Suspicion

2: The Scandal of Positivity: the Kantian Paradigm in Modern Theology

3: Against Purism: Hamann's Metacritique of Kant

4: Feuerbach: Forgotten Father of the Hermeneutics of Suspicion

5: Nietzschean Suspicion and the Christian Imagination

Part II: Christian Imagination in a Postmodern World

6: The Hermeneutics of Difference: Suspicion in Postmodern Guise

7: The Hermeneutic Imperative: Interpretation and the Theological Task

8: The Faithful Imagination: Suspicion and Trust in a Postmodern World

Appendix: Hamann's Letter to Kraus

Bibliography

Index
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Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation (Chap. 4 "Feuerbach: Religion's Secret?")
by D. Z. Phillips. 330 pgs.

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D.Z. Phillips argues that intellectuals need not see their task as being for or against religion, but as one of understanding it. What stands in the way of this task is certain methodological assumptions about what inquiry into religion must be. Beginning with Bernard Williams on Greek gods, Phillips goes on to examine these assumptions in the work of Hume, Feurerbach, Marx, Frazer, Tylor, Marett, Freud, Durkheim, Lévy-Bruhl, Berger and Winch. The result exposes confusion, but also gives logical space to religious belief and shows how the academic study of religion may return to the contemplative task of doing conceptual justice to the world. Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation extends in important ways D.Z. Phillips' seminal 1976 book Religion Without Explanation. It will be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, anthropology, sociology and theology.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Hermeneutics and the Philosophical Future of Religious Studies

Chapter 2: Bernard Williams on the Gods and Us

Chapter 3: Hume's Legacy

Chapter 4: Feuerbach: Religion's Secret?

Chapter 5: Marx and Engels: Religion, Alienation and Compensation

Chapter 6: Tylor and Frazer: Are Religious Beliefs Mistaken Hypotheses?

Chapter 7: Marett: Primitive Reactions

Chapter 8: Freud: the Battle for 'Earliest' Things

Chapter 9: Durkheim: Religion as a Social Construct

Chapter 10: Lévy-Bruhl: Primitive Logic

Chapter 11: Berger: the Avoidance of Discourse

Chapter 12: Winch: Trying to Understand

Chapter 13: Understanding: a Philosophical Vocation

Index of Names

Index of Subjects
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The Age of German Idealism (Chap. 9 "The Young Hegelians, Feuerbach, and Marx")
by Kathleen M. Higgins, Robert C. Solomon. 408 pgs.

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This volume traces the emergence of German Idealism from Kant and his predecessors through the first half of the nineteenth century, ending with the 'irrationalism' of Kierkegaard. This book provides a broad, scholarly introduction to the period for students of philosophy and related disciplines, as well as some original interpretations of these authors.

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General Editors’ Preface

Chronology

Introduction

Chapter 1: From Leibniz to Kant

Bibliography

Chapter 2: Kant’s Copernican Revolution

Notes

Chapter 3: Kant’s Moral and Political Philosophy

Chapter 4: Kant: Critique of Judgement

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Chapter 5: Fichte and Schilling: The Jena Period

Chapter 6: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

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Chapter 7: Hegel’s Logic and Philosophy of Mind

Chapter 8: Hegel, Spirit, and Politics

Chapter 9: The Young Hegelians, Feuerbach, and Marx

Notes

Chapter 10: Arthur Schopenhauer

Chapter 11: Kierkegaard’s Speculative Despair

Glossary

Index
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Theology and Church: Shorter Writings, 1920-1928 (Chap. VII "Ludwig Feuerbach")
by Karl Barth, Louise Pettibone Smith. 358 pgs.

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Introduction (1962)

I: Unsettled Questions For Theology Today (1920)

II: Luther's Doctrine of The Eucharist: Its Basis and Purpose (1923)

III: The Desirability and Possibility Of a Universal Reformed Creed

IV: Schleiermacher's Celebration Of Christmas (1924)

V: Schleiermacher

VI: The Word in Theology From Schleiermacher to Ritschl

VII: Ludwig Feuerbach

VIII: The Principles of Dogmatics According to Wilhelm Herrmann

IX: The Concept of the Church

X: Church and Theology.

XI: Roman Catholicism: a Question To the Protestant Church

XII: Church and Culture

Index of Names

Index of Subjects
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Marx's Attempt to Leave Philosophy (Includes discussion of Ludwig Feuerbach in multiple chapters)
by Daniel Brudney. 430 pgs.

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Daniel Brudney traces the development of post-Hegelian thought from Ludwig Feuerbach and Bruno Bauer to Karl Marx's work of 1844 and his "Theses on Feuerbach," and concludes with an examination of "The German Ideology." Brudney focuses on the transmutations of a set of ideas about human nature, the good life, and our relation to the world and to others; about how we end up with false beliefs about these matters; about whether one can, in a capitalist society, know the truth about these matters; and about the critique of capitalism which would flow from such knowledge.
Brudney shows how Marx, following Feuerbach, attempted to reveal humanity's nature and what would count as the good life, while eschewing and indeed polemicizing against "philosophy"--against any concern with metaphysics and epistemology. Marx attempted to avoid philosophy as early as 1844, and the central aims of his texts are the same right through "The German Ideology." There is thus no break between an early and a late Marx; moreover, there is no "materialist" Marx, no Marx who subscribes to a metaphysical view, even in "The German Ideology," the text canonically taken as the origin of Marxist materialism. Rather, in all the texts of this period Marx tries to mount a compelling critique of the present while altogether avoiding the dilemmas central to philosophy in the modern era.

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1: Feuerbach's Critique of Christianity

2: Feuerbach's Critique of Philosophy

3: Bruno Bauer

4: The 1844 Marx I: Self-Realization

5: The 1844 Marx Ii: The Structure of Community

6: The 1844 Marx Iii: The Problem of Justification

7: The Theses on Feuerbach

8: The German Ideology I: More Antiphilosophy

9: The German Ideology Ii: The Picture of the Good Life and the Change from 1844

10: The German Ideology Iii: The Critique of Morality (and a Return to Philosophy)

Conclusion

Notes

Index
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Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx (Chap. VI "Marx and Feuerbach")
by Robert C. Tucker. 263 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction:: Marx in Changing Perspective

Part I: The Philosophical Background

I: The Self as God in German Philosophy

II: History as God's Self-Realization

III: The Dialectic of Aggrandizement

Part II: From Hegel to Marx

IV: Philosophy Revolts Against the World

V: Metaphysics as Esoteric Psychology

VI: Marx and Feuerbach

VII: The Rise of Philosophical Communism

Part III: Original Marxism

VIII: Working Man as World Creator

IX: Alienation and Money-Worship

X: Communism -- The Self Regained

PART IV: Mature Marxism

XI: Two Marxisms or One?

XII: The New Materialsim

XIII: Division of Labour and Communism

XIV: The World as Labour and Capital

XV: The Myth and the Problem of Conduct

CONCLUSION: MARX AND THE PRESENT AGE

REFERENCES

List of Books Cited

Index
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Fundamental Problems of Marxism (1969) ("Feuerbach and Marx" begins on p. 26)
by George V. Plekhanov. 192 pgs.

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A defense of Marxism as an integral world outlook, against those who would vulgarize and/or distort it. Appendix includes "The Materialist Conception of History, " and "The Role of the Individual in History."

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EDITOR'S NOTE

EDITOR'S PREFACE

I. Philosophical Writings of Marx and Engels

Ii. Feuerbach and Marx

Iii. Thinking and Being in Feuerbach

Iv. Emergence of Historical Materialism

V. the Materialist Dialectic as Method

Vi. Productive Forces and Geography

Vii. Role of Relations of Production

Viii. Base and Culture

Ix. Interaction of Base and Superstructure

X. Man and Necessity in History

Xi. Economic Base and Ideology

Xii. Against One-Sidedness and Schematism

Xiii. Psychology of the Epoch

Xiv. Class Struggle and Ideas

Xv. Necessity and Freedom

Xvi. Necessity and Revolution

EDITOR'S NOTES

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND INDEX
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Beyond Ethnocentrism: A Reconstruction of Marx's Concept of Science ("Ludwig Feuerbach" begins on p. 110)
by Charles McKelvey. 224 pgs.

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In this time of great change in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Karl Marx's relevance to modern social science may seem remote. However, this important study by Charles McKelvey shows just the opposite: Marx's concept of science can help social scientists gain a greater understanding of today's world society. Western ethnocentrism has, McKelvey argues, isolated the Euro-American sociologist from a true picture of the Third World. Modern sociology must rethink itself, McKelvey maintains, in light of Marxian concepts, Immanuel Wallerstein's "world systems perspective," and the cognitional theory of philosopher Bernard Lonergan.

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Preface

1 The Problem Of Knowledge

Notes

2 Critical Marxism

Notes

3 Science And Economic Development

Summary

Notes

4 The Proletarian Point of View

Note

5 Marx's Intellectual Development

Notes

6 The Cognitional Theory of Bernard Lonergan

Notes

7 A Reconstruction Of Marx's Concept Of Science

Notes

8 Marx and the Third World

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Karl Marx: The Essential Writings (Chap. 19 "Critique of Feuerbach")
by Frederic L. Bender. 516 pgs.

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Preface to the Second Edition

Notes

Chronological Table

Introduction

Notes

I: The Young Marx on Philosophy, Religion, and the State (1841-1843)

1: Philosophy as Criticism and Practice

2: On Censorship of the Press

3: Religion and Authority

4: Law and Morality

5: The Social Base of Politics

6: In Praise of Democracy

7: Critical Philosophy and Social Reform

8: Religion, Philosophy, and the Proletariat

9: Political Rights versus Human Emancipation

II: Alienation and Its Overcoming in Communism (1844)

10: Alienated Labor

11: From Human Being to Commodity

12: Private Property versus Communism

13: The Perversion of Human Needs

14: The Destructive Power of Money

15: Alienated Labor versus Truly Human Production

III: Critique of the Philosophical Tradition (1844-1846)

16: Critique of Hegel

17: Critique of Idealism

18: Critique of Abstract Materialism

19: Critique of Feuerbach

IV: The Materialist Conception of History (1845-1877)

20: Outline of Historical Materialism and Warning against Its Oversimplification

21: Essentials of the Theory

22: Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations

V: The Politics of Revolution (1844-1875)

23: Revolution: Social or Political?

24: The Revolutionary Proletariat

25: The Manifesto

26: Communist Tactics in a Democracy

27: Critique of Reformist Tendencies

28: The Paris Commune and "Proletarian Dictatorship"

VI: The Theoretical Analysis of Capitalism (1857-1883)

29: Production in General

30: The General Relation of Production to Distribution, Exchange, and Consumption

31: The Method of Political Economy

32: The Commodity

33: The Fetishism of Commodities

34: Exchange and Money

35: The General Formula for Capital

36: The Sale of Labor Power

37: The Labor Process

38: The Production of Surplus Value

39: The Rate of Surplus Value

40: The Struggle between Capitalist and Laborer

41: The Conversion of Surplus Value into Capital

42: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation

43: The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Surplus Value to Fall

44: Means of Counteracting the Law

45: The Dialectic of Capitalist Production

46: The Grundrisse on Alienation and Automation

VII: On Imperialism and the Developing World (1853-1882)

47: The Colonial System and the Genesis of Capitalism

48: British Imperialism in India

49: Revolution in China and Europe

50: Russia's Drive for World Domination

51: Russia's Revolutionary Potential

VIII: The Democratic Road to Socialism (1850-1880)

52: The Final Split in the Communist League

53: Inaugural Address of the First International

54: Letter to Abraham Lincoln

55: Trade Unions

56: The Possibility of Nonviolent Revolution

57: Against "Personality Cults"

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index
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The Philosophical Foundations of Marxism ("Feuerbach's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy" begins on p. 80)
by Louis Dupre. 242 pgs.

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1: The Development of Hegel's Social Theory

2: Hegel's Philosophy of Right

3: The Formation of Marx's Philosophy

4: Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of the State

5: Marx's Humanism: The Writings of the Paris Period

6: Marx's Historical Materialism: The German Ideology

7: Applications of Historical Materialism

8: A Critique of Historical Materialism

Index
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Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Notes concerning a Reactionary Philosophy, Vol. XIII (1927) ("Feuerbach and Dietzgen on the Thing-in-Itself" begins on p. 91)
by Lenin. 338 pgs.

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Author's Preface to the First Edition

Author's Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Chapter One the Theory of Knowledge of Empirio-Criticism and of Dialect Materialism I

Chapter Two the Theory of Knowledge of Empirio-Criticism and of Dialectic Materliasm II

Chapter Three the Theory of Knowledge of Empirio-Criticism and Dialectic Materialism III

Chapter Four the Philosophic Idealists as Associates and Successors of Empirio-Criticists

Chapter Five the Latest Revolution in Natural Science and Philosophic Idealism

Chapter Six Empirio-Criticism and Historical Materialism

Conclusion

Addenda

Appendix Dialectic Materialism and the Philosophy of Dead Reaction
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Between Man and Man ("Feuerbach and Nietzsche" begins on p. 145)
by Martin Buber, Ronald Gregor Smith. 216 pgs.

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FOREWORD

I DIALOGUE

Section One: Description

Section Two: Limitation

Section Three: Confirmation

II THE QUESTION TO THE SINGLE ONE ( 9)

III EDUCATION

IV THE EDUCATION OF CHARACTER

Section One: the Progress of the Question

V WHAT IS MAN?

Section Two: Modern Attempts

TRANSLATOR'S NOTES

INDEX OF NAMES

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

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