Karl Marx and Max Stirner sought to overcome their mentor Georg Hegel in opposing ways, and by opposing each other. In Max Stirner Versus Karl Marx, Philip Breed Dematteis constructs an accessible while scholarly contrast to their conflicts.While this isn't the "last word" on such a far-reaching subject, it can serve as a strong "first word" for those new to the ideas of these great figures of the philosophical and political history of the West.