An Oedipal drama for the ages, played out through philosophical polemics, with a twist that haunts history to this day.

Roberto Finelli is Professor of the History of Philosophy at Roma Tre. He has published numerous studies dedicated to Hegel, Marx, Freud and modern and contemporary philosophy. He is the editor of the online journal Consecutio temporum. Hegeliana. Marxiana. Freudiana (www.consecutio.org).

Peter D Thomas is Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London. He is the author of The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism (Haymarket, 2010) and an editor of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.

Preface

1. Between the Ancient and the Modern

2. A Hegelian Sketch

3. Journalism with a Philosophical Soul

4. The Deceptive Materialism of Ludwig Feuerbach

5. An All Too Human Communism

Bibliography

Index