Ludwig Feuerbach: Band 5: Pierre Bayle. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Menschheit

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 This reprint contains previously unpublished Feuerbach letters which have been added to the edition of the letters from and by Feuerbach, edited by W. Bolin and published in 1904.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:

Biographische Einleitung: Bayles Leben und Schriften
Der Katholicismus als Gegensatz von Geist und Fleisch
Der Protestantismus als Gegensatz von Glaube und Vernunft
Theologie und Wissenschaft
Religion und Moral; Bayles Gedanken über den Atheismus
Die Selbstständigkeit der Ethik
Widerspruch der Dogmen mit der Vernunft
Bedeutung des Widerspruchs zwischen Glaube und Vernunft in Bayle
Bayles Bedeutung als Polemiker
Bayles Charakter und Bedeutung für die Geschichte der Philosophie