Verlag: Paris.: A.Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie. 1864., 1864
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xix, [20]-390; 2 p.l., xliv, [45]-368, [1 leaf]. with half-titles. contemporary quarter morocco (spine bit rubbed). First Editions of the Authorized French Translations by Joseph Roy, who is best known as the French translator of Marx's Capital (1872-75). In his most important work, Das Wesen des Christenthums (Leipzig: 1841), Feuerbach "meant to expose the contradictions in Hegelian philosophy, to establish the 'illusionistic' character of all religious belief, and to plead for a 'new philosophy', based on anthropology and physiology, that would provide the foundation of a naturalistic-humanistic ethic. His criticism of Hegelianism served as the point of departure for the so-called left Hegelians, of whom Marx and Engels were the most important representatives." (H.V.White, in Encyc. of Philosophy) It was first translated into French by August Hermann Ewerbeck in Qu'est ce que la Religion? (Paris, 1850).cfRand I 202.