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The Head of State as Representative of Mankind in Ludwig Feuerbach’s Political Conception
(Original title: The Head of State as Representative of Mankind in Ludwig Feuerbach’s Political Conception)
In the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 – 1872) religion occupies a central place, for it is on the religious plane, and by means of the genetic-critical method, that Feuerbach realizes the anthropological reduction of God, while postulating praxis by situating the community spatiotemporally, thus giving rise to the constitution of the state. The aim of this article is to highlight the problem that arises with the figure of the head of state in the Provisional Theses for the Reform of Philosophy (1842), by postulating a type of individuality that represents all men and that operates, in turn, as a replacement for God. To think of it in these terms would make praxis and thus politics impossible. It is proposed, then, to think of the figure of the representative of mankind (Deputierte des Menschheit), which appears in The Essence of Christianity (1841), as a mediator of intersubjectivity in the exercise of praxis and as representative of the genus in the political community.
