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Feuerbach

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First published: 1886
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Debates among Hegel's followers provide the starting point for Friedrich Engels's account of the philosophical foundations of socialism. He considers how conservative and radical thinkers could draw different conclusions from the same system, then examines Ludwig Feuerbach's break with its abstract ideas. The discussion follows the movement toward materialism while asking how a philosophy concerned with nature can also explain human society.

This short work combines intellectual history with sustained argument about knowledge, religion and social development. Engels credits Feuerbach's influence but questions the limits of his approach, drawing distinctions between philosophical idealism and ordinary moral aims. Austin Lewis supplies a critical introduction, and the volume includes an appendix on Marx and Feuerbach.

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was a German philosopher, social scientist, and businessman who co-founded Marxist theory with Karl Marx, alongside whom he wrote The Communist Manifesto. Managing his family's cotton firm in Manchester, he funded Marx's work while producing his own sharp studies of industrial capitalism.