Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Marx, Theses on Feuerbach (1845), p.2 of 3 2 II The question whether objective [ gegenständliche ] truth can be attained by human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question. Feuerbach's secularized Christian mythology and theology fails to explain why man creates the mythology and the theology. The book draws together an account of major figures such as Feuerbach and Marx, with discussions of lesser-known but significant figures such as Eduard Gans, August Cieszkowski, Moses Hess, F. W. J. Schelling as well as such movements as French Saint-Simonianism and 'positive philosophy'. Ludwig Feuerbach is known for his 1841 book The Essence of Christianity, which is a radical critique of religion. As Marx thundered in the fourth of his "theses on Feuerbach," "one must proceed to destroy [the] earthly family [as it is] "both in theory and in practice."8. Marx noted that Feuerbach failed to explain the occurrence of religious sentiment in man (Marx, IV). In particular, declared Marx, true man, as Feuerbach had argued, is a "communal being" (Gemeinwesen) or "species being" (Gattungswesen).

Start studying Feuerbach, Freud, Marx. By examining the effects of industrialization as well as drawing from the ideas of German theorists Hegel and Feuerbach, Marx developed his concept of dialectical historical materialism which a way of illustrating the change from one society to another (Cuzzort and King, 1980). For Marx, this separation of the other world is a reflection of the self-contradiction and alienation of the secular world. He argues that all the properties religions attribute to God are really nothing more than projections of idealized human properties. Feuerbach is now recognized as a central figure in the history of nineteenth-century thought. Here I look at the critique of religion expressed in Feuerbach and Marx, before looking at a possible critique from Hegel. Brief Lives Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) Dale DeBakcsy tells us how Ludwig Feuerbach revolutionized philosophy and got absolutely no credit for it.. For many people, Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) is the grey but necessary grit shoved between the foundation stones of Hegel and Marx …