Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy

Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy is a 1886 first published writing Friedrich Engels. According to Engels, the plant is already 40 years earlier, in the unpublished in his lifetime Marx and Engels publication "The German Ideology ", undertaken task is performed to deal critically with the German philosophy from a materialist position. Here Engels emphasized the importance of Hegel and Ludwig Feuerbach for his own theories.

Hegel's conservative system must be distinguished from his revolutionary method of dialectics. Feuerbach had turned to law against Hegel's idealistic system and "the fundamental question of philosophy " - answered materialistic - the relation of thinking and being. Here Feuerbach but rejected Hegel's dialectical method, which is why his conception of man and nature had to remain abstract and unhistorical. Only Marx kept the " Rational " the dialectical method and freed them from their idealistic figure. Dialectic is no longer self- movement of the concept, but the real movement in nature and history with him.

Publication history

It was written about 50 pages long font early 1886, it was first published in edited selfsame year in " The Last Time ", No. 4 and 5, 1888, a revised offprint of Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz in Stuttgart, the one small point Engels contained. In this edition also for the first time Marx wrote in 1845 Theses on Feuerbach Engels were printed edited.