Philosophical Dictionary
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Max Stirner’s Spooks Explained: Truth, Morality and the Madhouse of Fixed Ideas
By Markus Uehleke
Max Stirner said your head is haunted. God, morality, the state and even truth can become spooks, fixed ideas that give orders. Here is what a spook is, why Stirner called the pious fools in a madhouse, what his egoism means and why Marx and Engels wrote 300 pages against him. Was he right, or just haunted differently?