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Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)

1. Background

Ludwig A. Feuerbach was born in a Lutheran family on July 28, 1804, in Landshut, Bavaria; the fourth son of Anselm von Feuerbach and his wife Wilhelmine. Anselm von Feuerbach was a distinguished German jurist and criminologist, who "ranks at least as high in the history of legal thinking and criminological studies as his son Ludwig does in the history of philosophy and of ideas." (Kamenka 1970, 18) Anselm gained fame as the first Protestant to be elected to a chair at the Roman Catholic dominated University of Bavaria. His father reworked Bavarian civil law on behalf of Napoleon while Ludwig was still a youth, and later wrote what remain several classics in criminology. Anselm was so hot tempered and tyrannical that his family nicknamed him “Vesuvius” (Kamenka 18-21). Perhaps this provides some insight into why Ludwig would eventually feel imprisoned by the faith of his youth.

The other members of the Feuerbach family were equally talented. Joseph Anselm, the eldest son, was a professor of classical philology and

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

First published Fri Oct 3, 2003; substantive revision Tue Jul 31, 2007

Ludwig Feuerbach, along with Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche, must be counted among those philosophical outsiders who rebelled against the academic philosophy of the 19th century and thought of themselves as reformers and prophets of a new culture. Although he began his career as an enthusiastic follower of Hegel, he emerged in the 1840s as a leader of a group of radicals called the Young Hegelians who, inspired by the revolutionary political spirit sweeping over Europe, employed the critical side of Hegel's philosophy to undermine the reactionary alliance of philosophy, State, and Christianity in Prussia. But confronted by censorship, the police, and reprisals against them in the universities they turned against Hegel's philosophy altogether. Expelled from the faculties for which they were trained, many of them became pamphleteers, journalists, revolutionaries, and independent scholars.

Feuerbach is best known for his criticism of Idealism and religion, especially

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Ludwig Feuerbach

German philosopher and anthropologist (1804–1872)

"Feuerbach" redirects here. For other uses, see Feuerbach (disambiguation).

Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Feuerbach
Born	Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (1804-07-28)28 July 1804 Landshut, Electorate of Bavaria
Died	13 September 1872(1872-09-13) (aged 68) Rechenberg near Nuremberg, German Empire
Education	University of Heidelberg University of Berlin University of Erlangen (Ph.D./Dr. phil. habil., 1828)
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Anthropological materialism^[1] Secular humanism^[2] Young Hegelians (1820s)
Theses	De infinitate, unitate, atque, communitate, rationis (On the Infinitude, Unity, and Universality of Reason) (July 1828) De ratione una, universali, infinita (The One, Universal, and Infinite Reason) (November 1828)
Main interests	Philosophy of religion
Notable ideas	All theological concepts as the reifications of anthropological concepts^[3]

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