Feuerbach (Paperback)

Preface; Author's note; Feuerbach's life: a brief sketch; 1. Prefaratory reflections by way of an introduction; 2. Early Hegelian epistemology: the dissertation; 3. History of philosophy: genetic analysis as the critique of concepts; 4. Leibniz: the history of philosophy as immanent critique; 5. Critique of belief: Leibniz and Bayle; 6. The critique of Hegelian philosophy: part I; 7. The critique of Hegelian philosophy; part II; 8. The philosophical context of Feuerbach's critique of religion; 9. Religion as self-alienation of human consciousness: the phenomenology of religious and theological concept formation; 10. Reason, existence, and creation: God as an ontological principle; 11. The critique of philosophy and the development of a materialist humanism - part I: empiricism, sensationalism, and realism in Feuerbach's later works; 12. The critique of philosophy and the development of a materialist humanism - part II: anthropologism and materialism: nature and human nature in Feuerbach's later works; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.