Title: Romanticism by Roger Jones
Headings: Romanticism
Romanticism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Art and Imagination: Schelling and Coleridge
Hegel and Geist
Idealism Vs Materialism
Hegel's Dialectics
Marx's Dialectical Materialism
From "Will" to "Will to power" Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

Content: the "Old Hegelians" who   uncritically accepted Hegel's views and the "Young   Hegelians" who wanted to continue the revolution of ideas   using Hegel's dialectics (see later). Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72)   and Karl Marx (1818-83) where the most influential of these. Whereas Hegel thought that he had reconciled religion with his   Idea of Absolute Mind, Feuerbach wanted to see religion as an   example of an alienated or estranged consciousness. For   Feuerbach, who wanted to resurrect something of empiricism and   materialism in his philosophy, religion is not a way of   apprehending Geist; rather it is a reflection of the way society   is structured. For Feuerbach it is man who creates God in his own image, and   then falls down and worships his own creation. This notion of God   is that of an idealised human, and by removing these ideal   qualities from ourselves and projecting them onto a religious   object, we are estranging or alienating ourselves from our own   essence or being. Marx, also a materialist, wanted to be more radical than   Feuerbach. Whilst Feuerbach saw religion as alienation and seemed   content to leave society as it was, Marx wanted to radicalise   society; as he says: "