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Max Stirner (1806–56) was one of the foremost protagonists of individualist anarchism. Stirner’s masterpiece from 1845 (the English translation from German of Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum is The Ego and His Own) forms an integral part of the canon of anarchist writings. Anti-collectivism
The Ego and Its Own (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum) is an 1844 work by German philosopher Max Stirner. It presents a post-Hegelian critique of Christianity and traditional morality on one hand; and on the other, humanism , utilitarianism , liberalism , and much of the then-burgeoning socialist movement, advocating instead an amoral ...
REVIEWS & ENDORSEMENTS. Max Stirner is the bad boy, the black sheep of post-Hegelian philosophy. Often derided and dismissed, his philosophy of 'egoism' and his powerful critique of the 'spooks' of modernity have continued to resonate with those who are at odds with the world around them.
Johann Kaspar Schmidt, better known as Max Stirner (the nom de plume he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of his high brow, in German 'Stirn'), was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism.
Max Stirner (the pseudonym of Johann Caspar Schmidt), German philosopher and writer, was born in 1806 in Bayreuth and died in 1856 in Berlin. He studied theology and philology at the universities of Berlin, Erlangen, and Königsberg.
Max Stirner has 72 books on Goodreads with 15501 ratings. Max Stirner’s most popular book is The Ego and Its Own.
“All things are Nothing to Me” ― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own 56 likes Like “Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?”
The ideas of 19th-century German philosophers Max Stirner (dead in 1856) and Friedrich Nietzsche (born in 1844) have often been compared and many authors have discussed apparent similarities in their writings, sometimes raising the question of influences.
Max Stirner (1806-1856) was the philosopher of conscious egoism. His book Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum (published in English in 1907 as The Ego and His Own) is the fundamental work of that philosophy and the philosophical basis of individualist anarchism.
Another large and sympathetic volume, “Max Stirner,” written by Dr. Anselm Ruest, has been published very recently in Berlin. Dr. Paul Eltzbacher, in his work, “Der Anarchismus,” gives a chapter to Stirner, making him one of the seven typical Anarchists, beginning with William Godwin and ending with Tolstoi, of whom his book treats ...