Essence of Religion

Originally published in 1845, this concise critique formed the basis of thirty later lectures delivered in 1848 by Ludwig Feuerbach, one of Germany''s most influential humanist philosophers. In The Essence of Religion Feuerbach applied the analysis expounded in The Essence of Christianity (1841) to religion as a whole. The main thrust of Feuerbach''s argument is aptly summed up in the original subtitle to this work: "God the Image of Man. Man''s Dependence upon Nature the Last and Only Sour...