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Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion Van A. Harvey (Stanford University, California)

Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion By Van A. Harvey (Stanford University, California)

Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion by Van A. Harvey (Stanford University, California)


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Most scholars regard Feuerbach's criticism of Christianity as important because of its anticipation of the views of Nietzsche, Marx and Freud. Van Harvey's long-awaited book argues, controversially, that Feuerbach developed a much more interesting and nuanced theory of religion than has been acknowledged hitherto.

Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion Summary

Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion by Van A. Harvey (Stanford University, California)

Ludwig Feuerbach is traditionally regarded as a significant but transitional figure in the development of nineteenth-century German thought. Readings of Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity tend to focus on those features which made it seem liberating to the Young Hegelians: namely, its criticism of reification as abstraction, and its interpretation of religion as alienation. In this book, Van Harvey claims that this is a limited and inadequate view of Feuerbach's work, especially of his critique of religion. The author argues that Feuerbach's philosophical development led him to a much more complex and interesting theory of religion which he expounded in works which have been virtually ignored hitherto. By exploring these works, Harvey gives them a significant contemporary re-statement, and brings Feuerbach into conversation with a number of modern theorists of religion.

Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion Reviews

If this series measures up to its first volume, it will be a distinguished series indeed....a summary cannot do justice to the richness and subtlety of Harvey's analysis and interpretation of Feuerbach.... Owen C. Thomas, Anglican Theological Review
Van Harvey's study of Feuerbach offers one of the most extensive re-evaluations of Feuerbach this century. It should become a major source for refocusing upon this thinker who is germaine to the study of religion. This is a stimulating and thought-provoking book which is destined to become a classic in Feuerbach studies and essential reading for all engaged in the social-scientific study of religious belief. Thomas Hobbes, Word Trade

About Van A. Harvey (Stanford University, California)

Professor Van A. Harvey is George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of Handbook of Theological Terms (1964) and The Historian and the Believer (1966). Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion won the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Constructive-Reflective Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Note on the text and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 'Projection' in The Essence of Christianity; 2. The interpretative strategy informing The Essence of Christianity; 3. The criticism of religion in The Essence of Christianity; 4. Feuerbach's intellectual development; 5. The new bipolar model of religion; 6. The new interpretative strategy; 7. Feuerbach and contemporary projection theories; 8. Feuerbach, anthropomorphism, and the need for religious illusion; Select bibliography; Index.

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NLS9780521586306
9780521586306
0521586305
Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion by Van A. Harvey (Stanford University, California)
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
1997-03-06
332
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