Abstract

Whereas the interpretation of Feuerbach’s philosophy during the Cold War was dominated by ideological struggles between idealism (Hegelianism) and materialism (Marxism), the new Feuerbach research emphasizes the independence of Feuerbach’s philosophy of religion and anthropology as an ethical concept for post-secular societies. Internationalizing the discourse on Feuerbach has greatly helped to emancipate his philosophy from Engels’ dictum that the anthropology of Feuerbach did not reach the same level as that of Hegel’s epistemology or Marx’ sociology and was nothing more than old metaphysics outside of any historical and societal intermediation.

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