A DESIRE FOR LIGHT: CHRISTIANITY AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY IN LUDWIG FEUERBACH

Authors

  • Chrysantho Figueiredo Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba - PR. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v60i1.40142

Keywords:

Christianity. Critique of Religion. History of Modern Philosophy. Ludwig Feuerbach. Philosophical critique.

Abstract

This is a review of Ludwig Feuerbach’s book introduction Geshichte der Neuern Philosophie von Bacon bis Spinoza. The original text is in German, the review is in Portuguese. However, we present here, attached, the translated text, also unpublished and original. In 1841's The Essence of Christianity, Feuerbach presents in a most complete way his own version of the radical humanism which excited the young hegelians of his generation. However, it is between 1833 and 1838 that Feuerbach formulates his own philosophical point of view from the critique of the major philosophical systems of modernity. The History of Philosophy from Bacon to Spinoza, published in 1833, is the first of his historical-philosophical works which, apart from the critique of the philosophers indicated by the title, presents also a singular feuerbachian vision of history as a whole, showing how modern philosophy emerges from the inherent contradictions of the Christian religious spirit.

Author Biography

Chrysantho Figueiredo, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba - PR. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia.

Graduado em Direito pela Faculdade de Direito de Curitiba – UNICURITIBA, 2008. Mestrando no Programa de Pós-graduação em Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR, 2012.

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Published

2015-03-11

How to Cite

Figueiredo, C. (2015). A DESIRE FOR LIGHT: CHRISTIANITY AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY IN LUDWIG FEUERBACH. Revista Da Faculdade De Direito UFPR, 60(1), 247–269. https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v60i1.40142

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Resenhas

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