Stirner was the only child of albert christian heinrich schmidt 17691807. Sofort nach erscheinen ende oktober 1844 wurde er jedoch in einigen gebieten verboten, in anderen zugelassen. This book is available for free download in a number of formats including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. Max stirner, german antistatist philosopher in whose writings many anarchists of the late 19th and the 20th centuries found ideological inspiration. Unsere ganze erziehung darauf ausgeht, gefuhle in uns zu erzeugen, d. But in german, the word refers to a monster, and knowing stirners enjoyment of playing with words and ideas in ways that are likely to get the goat of his opponents, i think that he most likely meant just that. The memory of max stirner had been virtually extinct for an entire generation.
Publication date 1901 publisher otto wigand collection americana digitizing sponsor. Max stirner project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. It is the rebellion of the individual against those sacred principles in the name of which he was ever oppressed and subjected. In 1844, max stirner, a little known figure in german philosophical circles at that time, presented to the world a nuclear bomb in the form of a book. 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. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project. The individual and his property, in which the fundamental thesis of individualistic anarchism can be discerned. The previous translation of the book was known in english under the title the ego and its own and has often been mistaken for a kind of precursor to ayn randstyle economic libertarianism, but wolfi has re. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
The revival produced the most comprehensive study of stirner in english to that date, r. His thought is sometimes regarded as a source of 20thcentury existentialism. Vollstandige neuausgabe mit einer biographie des autors. Verlag max stirner archiv leipzig, leipzig 2001, isbn 3933287049. Both the form and content of stirners major work are disconcerting.
This is a pre1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. After teaching in a girls preparatory school in berlin, stirner made a. Excepting its beginnings as a criticism of the bible, this philosophical school of thought tried for the first time in germany to develop a consistently enlightenment atheist theory truepure criticism and practice. Oktober 1806 in bayreuth als erstes kind protestantischer eltern geboren. It presents a radically nominalist and individualist critique of christianity, nationalism, and traditional morality on one hand. He is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, postmodernism, and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism. This is a pre1923 historical reproduction that was. Johann kaspar schmidt october 25, 1806 june 26, 1856, better known as max stirner, was a german philosopher. If i may do so with a final wish, it is the one already expressed. En stirner delighted in his construction, articolo polemico di karl marx tratto da lideologia tedesca. The unique entity, in stirners view, is the individual, who must rebel against the attempt made.
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