Books by Ludwig Feuerbach

Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72) was a German intellectual whose attack on religion in this 1841 work was immediately controversial. The second edition of 1843 was translated into English by Marian Evans (1819-80) - who would become better known by her pen name of George Eliot - and published in 1854.

Asserting that religion and divinity are outward projections of inner human nature, this 1841 polemic excited immediate international attention and influenced the development of Marxist theory.