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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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For a number of years in the mid-nineteenth century, Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) played a pivotal role in the history of post-Hegelian German philosophy, and in the emergence of various forms of naturalism, materialism, and positivism that is one of the most characteristic developments of this period (cf. Mandelbaum 1971: 3–37 and Arndt & Jaeschke 2000). As a public intellectual in Germany during the decade that culminated in the revolutionary uprising of 1848, Feuerbach embodied many of the democratic and progressive aspirations that were frustrated by its eventual failure. Thereafter, during a decade of political reaction, he was an inspiration to such populizers of scientific materialism as Carl Vogt, Jacob Moleschott, and Ludwig Büchner, whose role in the secularization of modern culture in the second half of the nineteenth century was considerable (cf. Gregory 1977). By virtue of the enduring influence of his most famous book, The Essence of Christianity, which was translated int

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