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Book SynopsisIn this 1977 text, Professor Wartofsky wishes to establish Feuerbach as much more than a transitional figure between Hegel and Marx or an influence on important later developments. He seriously considers Feuerbach's philosophy on its own terms and seeks to demonstrate its continuing importance.
Table of ContentsPreface; Author's note; Feuerbach's life: a brief sketch; 1. Prefaratory reflections by way of an introduction; 2. Early Hegelian epistemology: the dissertation; 3. History of philosophy: genetic analysis as the critique of concepts; 4. Leibniz: the history of philosophy as immanent critique; 5. Critique of belief: Leibniz and Bayle; 6. The critique of Hegelian philosophy: part I; 7. The critique of Hegelian philosophy; part II; 8. The philosophical context of Feuerbach's critique of religion; 9. Religion as self-alienation of human consciousness: the phenomenology of religious and theological concept formation; 10. Reason, existence, and creation: God as an ontological principle; 11. The critique of philosophy and the development of a materialist humanism - part I: empiricism, sensationalism, and realism in Feuerbach's later works; 12. The critique of philosophy and the development of a materialist humanism - part II: anthropologism and materialism: nature and human nature in Feuerbach's later works; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.
