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The Ego and His Own

The Case of the Individual Against Authority

Max Stirner

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English
Bloomsbury
01 February 2014
The Ego and His Own, the seminal

defence of individualism, coloured the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche,

Max Ernst, Henrik Ibsen and Victor Serge, among many others, some of

whom would vigorously deny any such influence in later years. Less

reticent was Marcel Duchamp, who described Max Stirner as the

philosopher most important to his work. Challenging the religious,

philosophical and political constraints on personal freedom, Stirner

criticizes all doctrines and beliefs that place the interests of God,

the state, humanity or society over those of the individual.

Anticipating the later work of nihilists, existentialists, and

anarchists, The Ego and His Own upholds personal autonomy against all that might oppose it.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   404g
ISBN:   9781781681565
ISBN 10:   1781681562
Series:   Radical Thinkers
Pages:   370
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Max Stirner was a German philosopher who is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism, and anarchism.

Reviews for The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority

The most revolutionary book ever published... [Stirner] has left behind him a veritable Breviary of Destruction, a striking and dangerous book. It is dangerous in every sense of the word-to socialism, to politicians, to hypocrisy. But it asserts the dignity of the Individual, not his debasement. - New York Time You will have heard of Stirner's book, The Ego and His Own ... And it is certainly true that we must first make a cause our own, egoistic cause... we are communists out of egoism also, and it is out of egoism that we wish to be human beings, not mere individuals. --Friedrich Engels to Karl Marx, 19 November 1844


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