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Max Stirner (1806–1856) is the author of Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum (1844). This book is usually known as The Ego and Its Own in English, but a more literal translation would be The Unique Individual and their Property ). Both the form and content of Stirner’s major work are disconcerting.

Max Stirner, pseudonym of Johann Kaspar Schmidt, (born October 25, 1806, Bayreuth, Bavaria [Germany]—died June 26, 1856, Berlin, Prussia), German antistatist philosopher in whose writings many anarchists of the late 19th and the 20th centuries found ideological inspiration.

How broadly Stirner understood both the unique and its property is quite clear in this passage from Stirner’s Critics: “You, the unique, are ‘the unique’ only together with ‘your property.’...

The Ego and Its Own (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum), also translated as The Unique and its Property, is an 1844 work by German philosopher Max Stirner.

1. 2002. Max Stirner. Max Stirner (1806-56) is best known as the author of the idiosyncraticand provocative Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum(1844). Familiar in English as The Ego and Its Own(a more literaltranslation might be The Individual and his Property), boththe form and content of Stirner's work are disconcerting.