He considered his political action as consisting in the attempt to transform the German people's awareness of themselves.
To leftist thinkers of the time, this stance was too abstract and impractical; the self-confirmation of the human being in his sensuality as the end result of the history of religion and philosophy appeared too general, if not banal. Feuerbach's teachings, however, left their mark on writers who played decisive roles in shaping modern thought, leading some today to deem him an unsung prophet of the twentieth century. Those who have felt his impact include Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Troeltsch, Sigmund Freud, Nicolay Berdyayev, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre. To him, as much as to any other, are owed the notions of alienation and the "I--Thou" relationship: Erich Fromm and Martin Buber are inconceivable without Feuerbach.
Even thinkers who rejected Feuerbach developed dialectical continuations of his thought.
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