Ludwig was the third son of the distinguished jurist, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach. Feuerbach begins his analysis from “the fact of religious self-alienation” — of the separation of reality into two: the religious, imaginary world & the real world — and seeks to resolve the former into a secular one. Theses On Feuerbach. Here I want to leave aside Foucault’s interest in discourses of truth to notice that the language here reads like a response to Marx’s 11 th “Thesis on Feuerbach,” which reads that “the Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is [es kömmt darauf an] to change it” (Early Writings, 423). “Theses on Feuerbach” Analysis. Karl Marx, Theses On Feuerbach, Friedrich Engels, Massimo Morigi, Repubblicanesimo Geopolitico, Filosofia Della Prassi, Neomarxismo, Neo Marxism Theses On Feuerbach 1 The main defect of all hitherto-existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the Object, actuality, sensuousness, are conceived only in the form of the object, or of contemplation, but not as human sensuous activity, practice, not subjectively. The first thesis rejects all existing idealism and materialism. (e.g. In doing so, Marx clearly indicates that while historical materialism draws from materialist philosophies, it is a distinct method. [] The main deficiency, up to now, in all materialism – including that of Feuerbach – is that the external object, reality and sensibility are conceived only in the form of the object and of our contemplation of it, rather than as sensuous human activity and as … The Theses on Feuerbach as a political ecology of the possible Area (2009) 41 .2, 157-166 doi: 1 0.1 1 1 1/j.1475-4762.2008.00842.x Alex Loftus Historical materialism considers the role of the human subject in … His nephew, the neo-classical painter, Anselm Feuerbach, was the son of Ludwig’s older brother, also called Anselm, himself a classical archaeologist and aesthetician “in the spirit of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Joachim Winckelmann”. Either reality is passively perceived by the subject, or the subject is perceiving reality through thinking it up. Before Marx, there were roughly two philosophical views on reality. Theses on Feuerbach. 1. Eleven Theses on Feuerbach (1845) is the abstract summary of Marx's critique of political economy and his programme for a new, juster society. The sixth thesis on Feuerbach and the determination of human nature by social relations. Biographical Introduction. Written: by Marx in Brussels in the spring of 1845, under the title “1) ad Feuerbach”; Marx’s original text was first published in 1924, in German and in Russian translation, by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Marx-Engels Archives, Book I, Moscow. The Theses on Feuerbach and Decolonising Methodology: A Parallel Walking Jahid Siraz (Corresponding Author) Associate Prof. Dr. Haris Bin Abd Wahab, Dr. Mohd Rashid Bin Mohd Saad E: Ava180043@aiswa.um.edu.my Abstract This article aims to reflect upon the relevance of Decolonization methodologies with the Theses on Feuerbach.