Central essays by Feuerbach, advancing his humanist and atheist thought.
Asserting that religion and divinity are outward projections of inner human nature, this 1841 polemic excited immediate international attention and influenced the development of Marxist theory.
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–72) was a German intellectual whose attack on religion in this 1841 work was immediately controversial. The second edition of 1843 was translated into... Læs mere
Originally published in 1845, this digest of thirty lectures reviews key aspects of religious belief and in each case explains them as imaginative elaborations of the primal awe and sense of dependence that humans experience in the face of nature's power and mystery.
This volume contains the correspondence of Ludwig Feuerbach from 1845 to 1852.