Ludwig Feuerbach was born on July 28, 1804, in Landshut, Bavaria, the fourth son of Paul Johann Anselm, a distinguished jurist, criminologist, and champion of liberalism, and Wilhelmina Tr"ster Feuerbach. Feuerbach's father, a temperamental and...

The German philosopher Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804-1872) is noted for his criticism of orthodox religion. It may be said that he humanized God while deifying man. Ludwig Feuerbach was born on July 28, 1804, in Landshut, Bavaria. He studied at the...

To his own age, Ludwig Feuerbach seemed a Prometheus, a revolutionary who robbed Christianity of its superhuman aura and pointed to the anthropological origin of all religions. In the eyes of the Young Hegelians, among them Karl Marx, he appeared to...

FEUERBACH, LUDWIG (1804–1872), German humanistic philosopher of religion and influential spokesman for the Young Hegelians. Born into a gifted Bavarian family, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach studied theology at the University of Heidelberg before...

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Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas(1804–1872) Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, the German philosopher, theologian, and moralist, was born in Landshut, Bavaria. He studied theology at Heidelberg and Berlin and then, in 1825, under the influence of G. W. F....

Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist. He was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText =...

Atheist Ludwig Feuerbach is remembered as Europe's most outstanding atheist and one of the strong influences on communist Karl Marx. Being one of the strongest critics of religion in Western history, Feuerbach believed that religion was deeply established in human subjectivity and seriously attempted...

By Van A. Harvey. Cambridge University Press, 319 pp., $59.95. Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols. --John Calvin According to the Hebrew scriptures, humans were made in the image and likeness of God. But the...

In the following essay, Christensen delves into Feuerbach's fundamental assertion that human essence is found in community, and his depiction of “the dialectical interplay between commonality and self-individuation.”

In the following excerpt from his full-length study of Feuerbach's philosophy, Wartofsky asserts that Feuerbach's dissertation De ratione, una, universali, infinita defines the initial position of his thought while foreshadowing later developments, including a future break with the rationalist-idealist mode of Hegel.

In the following essay, McCoy considers Feuerbach's work as a transitional step between the thought of Hegel and Marx, and evaluates the cogency of his naturalist-humanist critique of philosophy.