Feuerbach and the interpretation of religion
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Feuerbach and the interpretation of religion
（Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought, 1）
Cambridge University Press, 1995
Available at 19 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 310-314
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Ludwig Feuerbach is traditionally regarded as a significant but transitional figure in the development of nineteenth-century German thought. Readings of Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity tend to focus on those features which made it seem liberating to the Young Hegelians: namely, its criticism of reification as abstraction, and its interpretation of religion as alienation. In this book, Van Harvey claims that this is a limited and inadequate view of Feuerbach's work, especially of his critique of religion. The author argues that Feuerbach's philosophical development led him to a much more complex and interesting theory of religion which he expounded in works which have been virtually ignored hitherto. By exploring these works, Harvey gives them a significant contemporary re-statement, and brings Feuerbach into conversation with a number of modern theorists of religion.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text and abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. 'Projection' in The Essence of Christianity
- 2. The interpretative strategy informing The Essence of Christianity
- 3. The criticism of religion in The Essence of Christianity
- 4. Feuerbach's intellectual development
- 5. The new bipolar model of religion
- 6. The new interpretative strategy
- 7. Feuerbach and contemporary projection theories
- 8. Feuerbach, anthropomorphism, and the need for religious illusion
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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