The present work is aimed at filling a hiatus in the literature dealing with the Young Hegelians and the early thought of Karl Marx. Despite the prevalent view in the past few decades that Bruno Bauer played an important part in the radical activity of Hegel's young disciples in the eighteen forties in Germany, no comprehensive work has so far been published on the relations between Bauer and Marx. In 1927 Ernst Bar nikol promised to write a monograph on the subject, but he never did. For the purpose of this study I perused material in numerous library collections and I would like to express my gratitude to the staff of the following institutions: Tel Aviv University Library, the Library and Archive of the International Institute of Social History in Am sterdam, the Heidelberg University Library, the Library of Gottingen University, the Tiibingen University Library, Frankfurt University Library, the State Library at Marburg, the Manuscript Department of the State Archives in Berlin.

Inhalt

One Bruno Bauer as a Young Hegelian.- I. The problem.- II. Literature on Bruno Bauer.- III. Bauer's life until the publication of Strauss' Leben Jesu.- IV. The split in the Hegelian school - emergence of the Young Hegelians.- V. Bruno Bauer as a theologian and critic of Strauss.- VI. Bauerian Critique of the Gospels.- VII. Bruno Bauer as commentator on Hegel.- VIII. Bauer's conception of religion and history.- IX. Bauer's political conception.- Two Karl Marx and Bruno Bauer.- I. The personal relations and literary collaboration between Bauer and Marx.- II. Bauerian motifs in Marx's conception of religion.- III. Bauer's influence on Marx's dissertation.- IV. Bauerian motifs in Marx's conception of alienation.- V. The impact of Bauerian ideas on Marx's conception of ideology.- VI. Marx, Feuerbach, Bauer.- VII. The polemic between Marx and Bauer.