Ludwig Feuerbach: Band 1: Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit

The edition by Wilhelm Bolin and Friedrich Jodl was published by our company for the first time between 1903 and 1911 in 10 volumes. Among the works written in his youth, this is the first publication of two of them, both of which are indispensable for gaining insight into Feuerbach‘s (1804-1872) philosophical development: his dissertation from 1828 and the ›Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit‹ (Thoughts on Death and Immortality) published anonymously in 1830, a work which denied Feuerbach a university career for all of his life. The youthful works contain a chronological table as well as a bibliography of the works by and about Feuerbach. This reprint contains previously unpublished Feuerbach letters which have been added to the edition of the letters from and by Feuerbach, edited by W. Bolin and published in 1904. Among the letters which have been added there are 18 addressed to Arnold Ruge, and these provide some insight into the Left or Young Hegelians who were in the process of formation.

Content:

Zur Einführung der Gesamtausgabe

Todesgedanken (1830):

Einleitung
Die ethische Bedeutung des Todes
Der speculative oder metaphysische Grund des Todes
Der physische Grund des Todes
Der geistige oder psychologische Grund des Todes
Die Nichtigkeit von Tod und Unsterblichkeit

Die Unsterblichkeitsfrage vom Standpunkt der Anthropologie (1846/1866):

Der allgemeine Unsterblichkeitsglaube
Die subjective Nothwendigkeit des Unsterblichkeitsglaubens
Der kritische Unsterblichkeitsglaube
Der rationalistische oder ungläubige Unsterblichkeitsglaube
Ueber meine »Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit«
Kritik der gewöhnlichen Erklärungen von dem, inbesondere volks- und alterthümlichen Unsterblichkeitsvorstellungen

Der Schriftsteller und der Mensch:

Eine Reihe humoristisch-philosophischer Aphorismen
Anhang: Satirisch theologische Distichen (1830)