Ludwig Feuerbach tra Hegel e Nietzsche. Morte, immortalità e nuove sfide tecno-digitali

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.