Feuerbach: The Roots of the Socialist Philosophy - Couverture souple

Engels, Friedrich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 160520367X ISBN 13 : 9781605203676

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Feuerbach's idealism consists in this, that he does not simply take for granted the mutual and reciprocal feelings of men for one another such as sexual love, friendship, compassion, self-sacrifice, etc., but declares that they would come to their full realization for the first time as soon as they were consecrated under the name of religion. The main fact for him is not that these purely human relations exist, but that they will be conceived of as the new true religion. --from Chapter III In 1841, German philosopher and anthropologist Ludwig Feuerbach published The Essence of Christianity (also available from Cosimo), a rationalist exploration of concepts of God and religion. It exerted a profound influence on Karl Marx, who incorporated some of its ideas into the atheistic, socialist philosophies of The Communist Manifesto a few years later. But Marx and his Manifesto coauthor, German philosopher FRIEDRICH ENGELS (1820-1895), did not see entirely eye to eye with Feuerbach--they had a particular bone to pick with his inconsistencies on materialism--and in 1888, Engels published this pamphlet to explain where their thoughts diverged. This 1903 translation of that German original is an invaluable artifact of lively academic debates of the day, and a vital component for modern students of political and religious philosophies to understanding the 19th-century roots of both.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This work takes us back nearly sixty years, to a time when what is now a move ment of universal significance was in its infancy. Hegel and the Revolution of 1848; these are the points of departure. To the former, we owe the philosophic form of the socialist doctrine, to the latter, its practical activity as a movement. In the midst of the turmoil and strife and apparent defeat of those days two men, Marx andE ngels, exiled and without influ ence, betook themselves to their books and began laboriously to fashion the form and doctrine of the most powerful intellectual and political movement of all time. To the task they brought genius, scholarship, and a capacity for hard work and patient re search. In each of these qualities they were supreme.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Feuerbach The Roots of Socialist Philosophy, was written by Friedrich Engels, (translated by Austin Lewis) and published in 1903. The work harks back to the 1848 democratic revolutions, which birthed the communist movement in Europe. In this volume Engels looks at Hegel and Feuerbach, and how dialectical materialism arose from these two writers. In the end appendix Engels affixes, Marx's eleven theses on Feuerbach, in which he famously said, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 160520367X
• ISBN 13: 9781605203676
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible