Spettri della filosofia. Note sul rapporto tra Marx e Stirner

This essay deals with the problem of the theoretical relation between Karl Marx and Max Stirner. Within an historical contextualization and an examination of the relevant texts, particular attention is paid to the German Ideology, three quarters of which are taken up with a ferocious attack on “Saint Max”, as the author of The Ego and its Own is ironically called. The theoretical aim is to show that Stirner is nothing other than a mirror in which Marx sees his own image reflected, his own incapacity to “give up the ground of philosophy”.