Feuerbach, Ludwig | Kit R. Christensen (essay date September 1985)
Kit R. Christensen (essay date September 1985)
SOURCE: Christensen, Kit R. “Individuation and Commonality in Feuerbach's ‘Philosophy of Man.’” Interpretation 13, no. 3 (September 1985): 335-57.
[In the following essay, Christensen delves into Feuerbach's fundamental assertion that human essence is found in community, and his depiction of “the dialectical interplay between commonality and self-individuation.”]
The place of Ludwig Feuerbach in European intellectual history is usually understood, appropriately, in light of his concomitant aims of critically reformulating Hegelian philosophy on a materialistic basis, and exposing the “anthropological essence” of religious belief. Feuerbach himself intended the chief product of this dual project to be a “new philosophy” grounded in the affirmation of, and a more concrete understanding of “man” as such. At least after 1839, Feuerbach came to believe that such a new...
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