Feuerbach, Ludwig | Marx W. Wartofsky (essay date 1977)
Marx W. Wartofsky (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: Wartofsky, Marx W. “Early Hegelian Epistemology: The Dissertation.” In Feuerbach, pp. 28-48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
[In the following excerpt from his full-length study of Feuerbach's philosophy, Wartofsky asserts that Feuerbach's dissertation De ratione, una, universali, infinita defines the initial position of his thought while foreshadowing later developments, including a future break with the rationalist-idealist mode of Hegel.]
Feuerbach's Dissertation,1 though it is a thoroughly Hegelian exercise, is significant in the suggestions it already bears of themes he is to develop later. Two readings of the Dissertation are possible: first, one may read it as a continuation of Hegel's dialectical phenomenology, as it is fully developed in the Phenomenology of Mind. In this case, one reads the Dissertation historically from...
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