Thoughts On Death And Immortality From The Papers Of A Thinker A New Translation

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
Page : 244 pages
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Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783989887077

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Thoughts on Death and Immortality from the Papers of a Thinker: A New Translation by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

Feuerbach's 1830 work Thoughts on Death and Immortality from the Papers of a Thinker, is his first publication and an important philosophical work that examines the nature of human existence and the question of immortality. Feuerbach would be the primary influence of Marx, and all of Marx's core ideas of Alienation, Dialectal Materialism and class struggle are found in the writings of Feuerbach. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche both take their satirical distichons about religion from Feuerbach. This work is also notable for its critique of traditional religious beliefs, particularly those related to the afterlife. Feuerbach was a prominent figure in the Young Hegelian movement, which sought to challenge the dominant theological and philosophical ideas of the time. "Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit" was an important contribution to this movement, and it helped to pave the way for the development of atheistic and humanistic philosophies in the nineteenth century. Feuerbach is a critical figure in the development of not merely Marxism, but Materialistic Humanism in general. This is Volume I in the 2023 The Complete Works of Ludwig Feuerbach by Newcomb Livraria Press

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520906470

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Thoughts on Death and Immortality by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

Never translated before, 'Thoughts on Death and Immortality' was the first published work of Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872). The scandal created by portrayal of Christianity as an egoistic and inhumane religion cost the young Hegelian his job and, to some extent, his career. Joining philosophical argument to epigram, lyric, and satire, the work has three central arguments: first, a straightforward denial of the Christian belief in personal immortality; second, a plea for recognition of the inexhaustible quality of the only life we have; and third, a derisive assault on the posturings and hypocrisies of the professional theologians of nineteenth-century Germany.

Author : Hans Schwarz
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802829864

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Theology in a Global Context by Hans Schwarz Pdf

In this book, Hans Schwarz leads us into the web of Christian theology's recent past from Kant and Schleiermacher to Mbiti and Zizoulas, pointing out all the theologians of the last two hundred years who have had a major impact beyond their own context. With an eye to the blending of theology and biography, Schwarz draws the lines of connection between theologians, their history, and wider theological movements. - Publisher.

Author : Hans J. Hillerbrand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4119 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135960285

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Encyclopedia of Protestantism by Hans J. Hillerbrand Pdf

This Encyclopedia is the definitive reference to the history and beliefs that continue to exert a profound influence on Western thought.

Author : Peter C. Caldwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230622708

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Love, Death, and Revolution in Central Europe by Peter C. Caldwell Pdf

The philosopher of religion and critic of idealism, Ludwig Feuerbach had a far-reaching impact on German radicalism around the time of the Revolution of 1848. This intellectual history explores how Feuerbach s critique of religion served as a rallying point for radicals, and how they paradoxically sought to create a new, post-religious form of religiosity as part of the revolutionary aim. At issue for the Feuerbachian radicals was the emergence of a humanity emancipated from the constraints of mere institutions, able to express itself freely and harmoniously. Caldwell also touches on Moses Hess, Louise Dittmar, and Richard Wagner in his discussion of the time. Thisbook reconstructs the nature of Feuerbach s radicalism and shows how it influenced early works of socialism, feminism, and musical modernism.

Author : Marina F. Bykova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474286657

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The German Idealism Reader by Marina F. Bykova Pdf

The German Idealism Reader is a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments central to German idealists and their immediate critics. Expanding the scope beyond the four best-known representatives - Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel - and including those thinkers often considered as secondary, but who are also crucial for understanding of this period, the Reader presents an influential era in all its philosophical complexity. Through its broad coverage of philosophers and their texts, it offers a complete dynamic picture of the intellectual period and features: - Selections from key texts by Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel - Readings from Reinhold, Schiller, Maimon, Schulze, Jacobi, Hölderlin, and Novalis - Responses to and critiques of German idealist thought by late nineteenth century thinkers, such as Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche - Selections extending beyond the typical focus on epistemology and metaphysics to include ethics, religion, society, and art - A general introduction and timeline, together with a chronology and bibliography to each thinker and introductory overviews to both thinkers and text With readings carefully selected to illustrate thinkers in dialogue with each other, The German Idealism Reader provides a better appreciation of the philosophical discussions central to the period. This is essential reading for all students of German idealism and the nineteenth-century German and Continental philosophies, as well as to those studying the important movements and periods of European intellectual history.

Author : Jon Stewart,Researcher Jon Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192842930

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An Introduction to Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion by Jon Stewart,Researcher Jon Stewart Pdf

"It provides an account of the criticism of religion by key Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire, Lessing, Hume, and Kant. This is followed by an analysis of how the Romantic thinkers, such as Rousseau, Jacobi, and Schleiermacher, responded to these challenges. For Hegel, the views of these thinkers from both the Enlightenment and Romanticism tended to empty religion of its content. The goal that he sets for his own philosophy of religion is to restore this lost content. " -- back cover.

Author : Christopher John Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135455781

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Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850 by Christopher John Murray Pdf

In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:256281285

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Thoughts on Death and Immortality by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

Author : John Shand
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119210023

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A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy by John Shand Pdf

Investigate the challenging and nuanced philosophy of the long nineteenth century from Kant to Bergson Philosophy in the nineteenth century was characterized by new ways of thinking, a desperate searching for new truths. As science, art, and religion were transformed by social pressures and changing worldviews, old certainties fell away, leaving many with a terrifying sense of loss and a realization that our view of things needed to be profoundly rethought. The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy covers the developments, setbacks, upsets, and evolutions in the varied philosophy of the nineteenth century, beginning with an examination of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, instrumental in the fundamental philosophical shifts that marked the beginning of this new and radical age in the history of philosophy. Guiding readers chronologically and thematically through the progression of nineteenth-century thinking, this guide emphasizes clear explanation and analysis of the core ideas of nineteenth-century philosophy in an historically transitional period. It covers the most important philosophers of the era, including Hegel, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Mill, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Bradley, and philosophers whose work manifests the transition from the nineteenth century into the modern era, such as Sidgwick, Peirce, Husserl, Frege and Bergson. The study of nineteenth-century philosophy offers us insight into the origin and creation of the modern era. In this volume, readers will have access to a thorough and clear understanding of philosophy that shaped our world.

Author : Dominic Erdozain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199844616

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The Soul of Doubt by Dominic Erdozain Pdf

From Freud to the new atheists, it is widely assumed that science is the enemy of religious faith. The idea is so pervasive that whole industries of religious apologetics converge around the challenge of Darwin, evolution, and the "secular worldview." This book challenges such assumptions by proposing a different cause of unbelief in the West: the Christian conscience. Tracing a history of doubt and unbelief from the Reformation to the age of Darwin and Karl Marx, 'The soul of doubt' argues that the most powerful solvents of religious orthodoxy have been concepts of moral equity and personal freedom generated by Christianity itself. The book demonstrates that the radical criticism of philosophers as influential as Spinoza, Voltaire and Ludwig Feuerbach was not the product of science. It emerged from a collision between religious values and religious practices, preeminently acts of persecution. This study offers a bold interpretation of the Enlightenment as a movement of vigorous spirituality, and it turns on its head conventional wisdom about the impact of Darwin and scientific naturalism.0The "nemesis of faith" was not science or secular reason: it was an ethical intuition that a dangerous God cannot be real.

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781725259775

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Theology and Technique by Jacques Ellul Pdf

Theology and Technique is a posthumous, incomplete volume drafted in the 1970s that nevertheless constitutes a significant addition to the Ellul corpus. Working from Jacques Ellul’s original outline, a collaborative team including three of Ellul’s children, a grandson, and Ellul scholars has assembled previous partial publications that Ellul himself approved for eventual incorporation along with relevant unpublished essays and notes into a book which throws the relationship between Ellul’s radical theology and sociological critique into fresh perspective. Frédéric Rognon contributes an especially insightful general introduction. The translation by Christian Roy is a model of rendering the complexities of the French original into English. This latest Ellul publication will be essential to any serious attempt to appreciate the scope and depth of Ellul’s Christian engagement with the challenges of the contemporary world.

Author : Alexander H. Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000672800

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The Consolations of History: Themes of Progress and Potential in Richard Wagner’s Gotterdammerung by Alexander H. Shapiro Pdf

In this book on Richard Wagner’s compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Götterdämmerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H. Shapiro advances an ambitious new interpretation which uncovers intriguing new facets to the work’s profound insights into the human condition. By taking a fresh look at the philosophical and historical influences on Wagner, and critically reevaluating the composer’s intellectual worldview as revealed in his own prose works, letters, and diary entries, the book challenges a number of conventional views that continue to impede a clear understanding of this work’s meaning. The book argues that Götterdämmerung, and hence the Ring as a whole, achieves coherence when interpreted in terms of contemporary nineteenth-century theories of progress, and, in particular, G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophies of mind and history. A central target of the book is the article of faith that has come to dominate Wagner scholarship over the years – that Wagner’s encounter in 1854 with Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy conclusively altered the final message of the Ring from one of historical optimism to existential pessimism. The author contends that Schopenhauer’s uncompromising denigration of the will and denial of the possibility for human progress find no place in the written text of the Ring or in a plausible reading of the final musical setting. In its place, the author discovers in the famous Immolation Scene a celebration of mankind’s inexhaustible capacity for self-improvement and progress. The author makes the further compelling case that this message of progress is communicated not through Siegfried, the traditional male hero of the drama, but through Brünnhilde, the warrior goddess who becomes a mortal woman. In her role as a battle-tested world-historical prophet she is the true revolutionary change agent of Wagner’s opera who has the strength and vision to comprehend and thereby shape human history. This highly lucid and accessible study is aimed not only at scholars and researchers in the fields of opera studies, music and philosophy, and music history, but also Wagner enthusiasts, and readers and students interested in the history and philosophy of the nineteenth century.

Author : Van A. Harvey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521586305

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Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion by Van A. Harvey Pdf

Ludwig Feuerbach is traditionally regarded as a significant but transitional figure in the development of nineteenth-century German thought. Readings of Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity tend to focus on those features which made it seem liberating to the Young Hegelians: namely, its criticism of reification as abstraction, and its interpretation of religion as alienation. In this book, Van Harvey claims that this is a limited and inadequate view of Feuerbach's work, especially of his critique of religion. The author argues that Feuerbach's philosophical development led him to a much more complex and interesting theory of religion which he expounded in works which have been virtually ignored hitherto. By exploring these works, Harvey gives them a significant contemporary re-statement, and brings Feuerbach into conversation with a number of modern theorists of religion.

Author : Roberto Finelli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004307643

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A Failed Parricide by Roberto Finelli Pdf

A Failed Parricide by Roberto Finelli offers an innovative reading of the Marx-Hegel relationship, arguing that the young Marx remained structurally subaltern to Hegel’s distinctive conception of the subject that becomes itself in relation to alterity.