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Lectures on the Essence of Religion - Softcover

Feuerbach, Ludwig

 
9781532646232: Lectures on the Essence of Religion
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1532646232 ISBN 13: 9781532646232
Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2018

Synopsis

This book, translated for the first time into English, presents the major statement of the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach. Here, in his most systematic work, Feuerbach’s thought on religion and on the philosophy of nature achieves its full maturity.

Central to the thought of Feuerbach is the concept that man not God is the creator, that divinities are representations of man’s innermost feelings and ideas. Philosophy should turn from theology and speculative rationalism to sound factual anthropology.

“My aim in these Lectures,” writes Feuerbach, “is to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, worshippers into workers, candidates for the other world into students of this world, Christians, who on their own confession are half-animal and half-angel, into men––whole men.”

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About the Author

Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) was the leading spirit in the rebellion against idealistic absolutism. His influence on Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud is once again beginning to be recognized.

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Publisher
Wipf and Stock
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1532646232
ISBN 13 
9781532646232
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
378