Ludwig Feuerbach The 19 th century was a century of revolutionary changes in human thinking. People started questioning religion openly without fear. The Romantic Movement questioned the absolutisms of classicism. Karl Marx laid the axe at the root of the traditional social hierarchies. In spite and because of Marx, capitalism broke a million more traditions. Industrialisation pulled people out of family-based work, colonialism led to miscegenation of different races and cultures, the Enlightenment of the previous centuries conquered new heights in human consciousness, women began to assert themselves against the strictures of patriarchy and religion was forced to take a backseat. Ludwig Feuerbach is one of the many philosophers who redefined divinity for the thinking man (and woman, of course) in the century of various upheavals. The leading religions of the time had externalised God and put Him (not Her , significantly) somewhere out there – Heaven or some such p
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