Feuerbach - Paperbackby Marx W. Wartofsky (Author) Feuerbach is now recognized as a central figure in the history of nineteenth century thought. He was one of Hegel's most influential pupils: he dominated German radical philosophy in the 1840s and was the leader of the Young Hegelians; his 'anthropological' critique of Hegel's idealism decisively influences the materialism and humanism of Marx and Engels; his critique of religion pointed the way for the philosophers of