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Jerry L. Walls, Heaven: The Logic Of Eternal Joy, Todd Gooch Dec 2005

Jerry L. Walls, Heaven: The Logic Of Eternal Joy, Todd Gooch

Todd Gooch

DOI 10.1007/s11153-005-4373-0


Max Stiner And The Apotheosis Of The Corporeal Ego, Todd Gooch Dec 2005

Max Stiner And The Apotheosis Of The Corporeal Ego, Todd Gooch

Todd Gooch

This paper clarifies Stirner’s relationship to his Left Hegelian contemporaries, Ludwig Feuerbch and Bruno Bauer, by showing how, in The Ego and Its Own, Stirner sought to exploit a fundamental contradiction that he perceived in the humanisitc atheism of Feuerbach and Bauer, and thereby to complete the critique of religious consciousness initiated by them. After having reconstructed Stirner’s position in relation to those of his contemporaries, the paper goes on to identify a significant weakness in it, and to identify resources in Feuerbach’s program for a future philosophy that might be enlisted in response to Stirner. The author argues that …