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Feuerbach

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Feu·er·bach  (foir-bä), Ludwig Andreas von 1804-1872.
German philosopher and anthropologist whose major work, The Essence of Christianity (1841), maintains that religion and divinity are projections of human nature.
Feuerbach (German) [ˈfɔɪərbax]
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(Biographies / Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas (1804-1872) M, German, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) Ludwig Andreas (ˈluːtvɪç anˈdreːas). 1804-72, German materialist philosopher: in The Essence of Christianity (1841), translated into English by George Eliot (1853), he maintained that God is merely an outward projection of man's inner self


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Feuerbach focused on the social and moral aspects of human relations rather than on Christian beliefs.
The sage of unbelief: George Eliot and unorthodox choices by Frome, Susan / The Humanist
By bringing the syncretic philosophical and historical concerns of Spinoza, Feuerbach, Spencer, Mill and Darwin into fiction, she transformed the very genre itself.
'Genius' and the household mode of intellectual production: 1795-1885 by Koditschek, Theodore / Journal of Social History
Through much of the novel, John Ames's response to these forefathers is as much intellectual and literary as it is emotional: in order to understand them, he has conversations with Feuerbach, with Bernanos (who gave us another diary of a religious man), with Donne.
There Is a Balm by Sayers, Valerie / Commonweal
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