Usually no attention is paid to the fact that the First Part of German Ideology ("Feuerbach") was the last one written by Marx. As it appears to us today the text therefore covers the genesis of the criticism of humanism. This criticism, as this short essay intends to point out, could only spring from a close contact with the text of The Unique and Its Property. After reading Stirner, Marx could believe himself freed from this last speculative and ideological ghost: Man.
Abstract universality; reason and state; representation; Concept and Sight; inversion of the dialectics of Sinnliche Gewissheit; the Here and the Now; the ideology of the Mittelstand