Feuerbach

Summary

Dominique Pagani presents Feuerbach as the disciple of Hegel who serves as the mediation towards Marx1. He credits him with carrying out the critique of religious alienation, notably in The Essence of Christianity: God is man inverted, and man must reappropriate what he has placed in God. In his view, this is better than Voltaire, but it goes no further2. He consistently makes the same criticism: the recovered essence is given back to nature and not to history, so that this nature becomes a new alienation and millennia of historical effort are ignored345. He faults him for a materialism without historical dialectic, one that did not see the Tätigkeit, the activity of the subject67. He calls him a libertarian naturalist, "more ecological" than Hegel. He sees him as the source of the young "Feuerbachian" Marx, the one most hostile to Hegel, who passes through this "torrent of fire" and then breaks free of it with the Theses on Feuerbach8. He also mentions Engels's book devoted to Feuerbach.

1. 1Marx on the Beach 1/21 Feb 2016 · 35:57
2. 2#9.14 How can sciences of history be real?5 Feb 2021 · 1:10:07
3. 3H for Hegel22 Dec 2014 · 5:02
4. 4Marx on the Beach 1/21 Feb 2016 · 44:42
5. 5Worldliness in Clouscard: desiring what? Through whom?3 Sept 2023 · 2:09:00
6. 6#5.2 ter Questions, following workshop #5.2 (Facebook Live)6 Dec 2018 · 55:55
7. 7Cynicism of the extreme centre or epistemic heroism? The dialectic of the middle20 May 2021 · 37:44
8. 8#7 Harnessed to confinitude5 May 2020 · 19:15

Summary produced automatically from 35 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.