TY - JOUR N2 - In 1844 Max Stirner published The Ego and Its Own, a book doomed to cause uproar, but which failed to seriously antagonize the authorities. No reservations about its printing were voiced, mainly because it was judged that the book contained ideas so absurd as to pose no threat to the public order. K. Marx and F. Engels took exception and criticized The Ego mercilessly, making fun of Stirner’s theoretical ideas in their German Ideology. The critique is much longer than the book itself and it seems rather puzzling that so much space was devoted to an undeserving piece of work. One cannot help but wonder why that seemingly worthless book was made an object of a lengthy analysis. I try to disguise their motives and show why Marx and Engels felt threatened by the utopian and absurd figure of Stirner’s Ego. Against this background I describe Marx’s ideas on man and society. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109516/PDF/PF%204-18%2011-J.Uglik.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109516 PY - 2018 IS - No 4 EP - 140 DO - 10.24425/pfns.2018.125498 KW - K. Marx KW - M. Stirner KW - utopia KW - human being KW - society KW - the Ego A1 - Uglik, Jacek PB - Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN PB - Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego DA - 2019.01.30 T1 - From one utopia to another? On the ideas of Max Stirner and Karl Marx SP - 123 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109516 T2 - Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria ER -