Peter Genov. Feuerbachs Erkenntnistheorie Und Metaphysik. Zürich, 1911 (Berner Dissertation) (S. 89)

Lenin’s remarks on Peter Genov’s book “Feuerbachs Erkenntnistheorie und Metaphysik.” Zürich, 1911 (Berner Dissertation) (S. 89) [Peter Genov, Feuerbach’s Theory of Knowledge and Metaphysics, Zürich, 1911 (Bern Dissertation) (p. 89)] were written December 29-30, 1914, in Bern. Note that this document has undergone special formating to ensure that Lenin’s sidenotes fit on the page, marking as best as possible where they were located in the original manuscript.

This purely amateurish work consists almost ex- clusively of quotations from Feuerbach’s collected works |Jodi edition|. It can be useful only as a collection of quotations, and incomplete at that.

The author quotes mainly:

Vol. II, especially “Thesen und Grundsätze,” and then “Wider den Dualismus.”

X, especially “Über Spiritualismus und Materialismus.” NB VIII, Vorlesungen über das Wesen der Religion (Feu-

The author quotes (in the spirit of Feuerbach): Ebbinghaus: Experimentelle Psychologie, SS. 110 und 45. Fr. Jodl: Lehrbuch der Psychologie, S. 403. A Forel: Gehirn und Seele, X. Auflage, S. 14.

Lange (II. Buch, S. 104) against Feuerbach, he says, is obviously wrong (S. 83 and 88), distorting (and denying) Feuerbach’s materialism.

At the beginning the author gives a sketch of Feuer- bach’s philosophical evolution,—Todesgedanken (1830)— still a Hegelian; Der Schriftsteller und der Mensch (1834)— beginning of the rupture; Kritik des Antihegel (1835)— against the enemies of Hegel, but not in favour of Hegel (cf. de Grün, Bd. II, 409; I, 390 and 398).—The Critique of Hegelian Philosophy (1839).—The Essence of Christian- ity (1 8 41)—the rupture—Theses and Principles of the Philosophy of the Future (1842 and 1843).—The Essence of Religion (1845).—Lectures on the Essence of Religion (1847).