Ludwig Feuerbach between hegel and nietzsche.  Death, immortality and new techno-digital challenges

Teresa Caporale

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-350-9

Ludwig Feuerbach between hegel and nietzsche. Death, immortality and new techno-digital challenges

Authors

Teresa Caporale

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9278-9044

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-350-9

Keywords:

Mortality, Digital immortality, De-metaphysicization, Finitude and transcendence, Technology and identity

Synopsis

Editore: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 190

Language: Italian

Abstract: In an age where digital technologies challenge the boundaries between life, death, and identity, this volume offers a reinterpretation of mortality as a fundamental feature of the human condition. Drawing on Feuerbach’s far-sighted insights, death is no longer understood as a mere biological or individual event, but rather as a structure of meaning and a principle of humanization—standing in opposition to any metaphysical illusion of immortality. The first two chapters are devoted to tracing the genealogy of Feuerbach’s naturalistic humanism and his sharp critique of German speculative philosophy. The third chapter explores the limits and tensions within his thought through a comparison with Engels and Stirner, culminating in a “dialogue” with Nietzschean perspectives in the fourth. The final part of the volume brings the analysis into the present, investigating the contemporary implications of Feuerbach’s and Nietzsche’s thought in light of the transformations brought about by digital technologies—from algorithmic memory to emerging forms of virtual immortality. Far from being a mere transitional figure, Feuerbach emerges here as a pivotal thinker for reimagining the human in an age marked by the decline of strong metaphysical frameworks and the technological redefinition of our identity.

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Author Biography

Teresa Caporale, University of Naples Federico II

Teresa Caporale holds a PhD in Philosophical Sciences from the University of Naples Federico II, where she currently serves as an Subject Matter Expert in Moral Philosophy. Her research focuses on the post-Hegelian legacy, with particular attention to the relationship between ethics, anthropology, and religion, as well as the impact of post-Hegelian philosophy on contemporary debates in food ethics and digital ethics. She published several essays in Journals and collected volumes, including Umanesimo ateo ed esperienza religiosa. Sulle radici feuerbachiane dell’ontologia di Ernst Bloch (2023); Lukács interprete di Feuerbach. A-dialetticità e a-storicità dell’uomo di un solo pensiero (2024); Food Choice as an Ethical Practice: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to a Possible Synthesis (2024). She also edited and translated Ernst Cassirer’s Scritti di Filosofia e Politica (2018). She is the author of the book Ateismo religioso e religione atea. Genesi e destinazione dell’antropoteismo feuerbachiano (Orthotes, 2021).