Feuerbach, Ludwig | Rodney Taylor (essay date spring 1993)
Rodney Taylor (essay date spring 1993)
SOURCE: Taylor, Rodney. “Ludwig Feuerbach on Being as Death.” Michigan Germanic Studies 19, no. 1 (spring 1993): 46-61.
[In the following essay, Taylor traces the influence of Spinozan metaphysics on the conception of death outlined in Feuerbach's treatise Thoughts on Death and Immortality.]
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In a late essay, Max Scheler points to the vast influence of Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677) on the thought and literature of German-speaking countries during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.1 Echoing Scheler's view, Wulf Koepke stresses that important aspects of this influence have received inadequate scholarly attention.2 This assessment is especially accurate with regard to the young Ludwig Feuerbach's Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit, aus den Papieren eines Denkers: a brilliantly original work of metaphysics that also exhibits a high degree of...
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