Abstract

The article summarizes the views of the philosopher Pietro Chiodi about Sartre and, in particular, analyzes his essay "Sartre e il marxismo" (Milano, 1965) and his studies on dialectics and alienation. Then the "critical" duties which Chiodi attributes to philosophical anthropology are discussed: to clarify the possibility conditions of human existence, to denounce the situations of alienation, to encourage action to remove them. Finally the article examines Chiodi's interpretation of Marx as a classic author, whose ideas can be freely sorted out and separately used, and contextualizes this reading within the Italian philosophy of the time.