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Trân-vàn-Toàn, « La mort et le problème de Dieu dans la pensée de Ludwig Feuerbach », Revue Philosophique de Louvain, ID : 10.3406/phlou.1975.5839
The problems of death, of immortality and of God are closely connected. After the death of Hegel they constitute the central theme of the debates among his disciples. The reflections of Feuerbach on these problems, chiefly in the Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit (1830) and Die Unsterblichkeitsfrage vom Standpunkt der Anthropologie (1846) aim to dissipate the imaginary entities of the next world and to establish the truth and consistancy of this world. The problem is Hegelian at the outset; but Feuerbach reshapes subsequently certain key-concepts of Hegelianism, such as Spirit, the infinite etc. The result is paradoxical : Man, whom he claims to free from the fear of death as well as from the dream of immortality, sees himself entirely subordinated to Society.