The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer, Douglas Moggach, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. x, 290

Bruno Bauer (1809-1882) is neither a well-known nor an easily accessible figure. Despite making a significant contribution both to the evolution of Hegelianism and to nineteenth-century German controversies about the historical Jesus, his work is now little read and only infrequently discussed. His name appears often enough, not least in sketches of Karl Marx's intellectual evolution (on which Bauer had a disputed impact), but serious studies of his work are few and far between (in any language).