Until now human beings have always formed false ideas about themselves, and about what they are or should be. They have ordered their own relations according to their ideas of God, of normal human beings, etc. The progeny of their heads have got out of control. They, the creators, have bowed down before their own creations. Let us free them from the chimeras, the ideas, the dogmas, the insane imaginations under whose yoke they are wasting away. Let us rebel against this dominion of thoughts. Let us teach them to exchange these imaginations for thoughts which correspond to the real nature of humanity, says one; to conduct themselves critically towards them, says another; to get them out of their heads, says another, and – existing actuality will collapse.

These innocent and childish fantasies form the core of recent young-Hegelian philosophy, which is not only received by the German public with horror and awe, but which is also proclaimed by the philosophical heroes themselves with a solemn consciousness of its world-shattering danger and criminal ruthlessness. The first volume of this publication aims to unmask these sheep in wolves' clothing …