Abstract

This work is indeed, as Professor Wartofsky properly—if somewhat immodestly—claims "the first major full-length study of the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach." In sum, it is a lengthy tour de force through most of Feuerbach’s works with the intention of illustrating the coherency of their development, or in the author’s words, "this work... proposes to set forth the development of Feuerbach’s thought as a dialectic." The main argument of the work is that Feuerbach’s work, taken as a whole and in the course of its presentment, not only is the record of his own intellectual development but esoterically expresses the very dialectic it would attempt to repudiate. Feuerbach is also taken as an "epochal figure" in the history of thought as regards his effort to set philosophy within a radically humanistic context.