Ideas about death and eternity

Thoughts on Death and Eternity is an explicit denial of the Christian belief in personal immortality, a plea for recognition of the inexhaustible quality of the only life we ​​have, and a satirical attack on the posturing and hypocrisies of professional theologians in nineteenth-century Germany. The editor of the work claimed that he had had a difficult time convincing the author to allow him to publish it; The author's reservation was also justified, because because of the anger it caused, this book became a major obstacle to Ludwig Feuerbach's attempts to obtain a professorship at a German university. However, he did not find this exclusion particularly tragic. He had been teaching for two years as a lecturer at the University of Erlangen by the time the book appeared, during which his contempt was directed as much at the world of the professional scholar as at the world of the theologian: "Three things I would not like to be: an old soothsayer, a poor writer / In the academy And finally, Taqi" p. 205. However, this book is much more than a denial of a particular Christian belief, a belief that had just been attacked by the French Enlightenment during the previous century. Published in 1830, it was the first publicly presented result of an internal dialogue that Feuerbach had to carry out throughout much of his career with major representatives of the tradition of Western philosophy...