The texts of the young Marx are very topical today: they address the issues of the alienation of work and the abstract nature of citizens' rights. They speak to us of the economic and mercantile distortion of needs, of the reification of money, of the "common goods" to be removed from the sphere of the market. The charm and relevance of the young Marx are reflected in the most diverse readings, from the existentialist ones of Jean Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to the more doctrinal ones of György Lukács and Norberto Bobbio. In the book by Giulio Marcon, the young Marx's itinerary is retraced from his letters to his father and from the thesis to the economic-philosophical manuscripts of 1844 that mark the border between the youth and maturity of the German thinker. The book integrates the reconstruction of the human and intellectual maturation of the young Marx with the proposal of the most significant passages of his theoretical evolution: from his early writings to the Jewish Question, from the Critique of Hegelian philosophy of public law to the economic-philosophical manuscripts of 1844.