Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy

Feuerbach had turned to law against Hegel's idealistic system and "the fundamental question of philosophy": the relation of thinking and being.

But Feuerbach rejected Hegel's dialectical method, which is why his view of man and nature remained abstract and unhistorical.

The book was only about 50 pages long, and was written early in 1886, and published that year in Die Neue Zeit, issues No.

In 1888 a revised print by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz was published in Stuttgart, which contained some additional commentary by Engels.

The first English translation by Austin Lewis was published in the United States in 1903 by Charles H. Kerr & Company.