Max Stirner and his philosophy Egoist anarchism




max stirner. portrait friedrich engels


johann kaspar schmidt (october 25, 1806 – june 26, 1856), better known max stirner (the nom de plume adopted schoolyard nickname had acquired child because of high brow, in german stirn ), german philosopher, ranks 1 of literary precursors of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism, , anarchism, of individualist anarchism. stirner s main work ego , own, known ego , own (der einzige und sein eigentum in german, translates literally 1 , property). work first published in 1844 in leipzig, , has since appeared in numerous editions , translations.


stirner s egoist philosophy

stirner s philosophy called egoism . says egoist rejects pursuit of devotion great idea, cause, doctrine, system, lofty calling , saying egoist has no political calling rather lives out without regard how or ill humanity may fare thereby . stirner held limitation on rights of individual power obtain desires. proposes commonly accepted social institutions—including notion of state, property right, natural rights in general, , notion of society—were mere spooks in mind. stirner wanted abolish not state society institution responsible members.


max stirner s idea of union of egoists (german: verein von egoisten), first expounded in ego , own. union understood non-systematic association, stirner proposed in contradistinction state. union understood relation between egoists continually renewed parties support through act of will. union requires parties participate out of conscious egoism. if 1 party silently finds suffering, puts , keeps appearance, union has degenerated else. union not seen authority above person s own will. idea has received interpretations politics, economics, romance, , sex.


stirner claimed property comes through might: whoever knows how take, defend, thing, him belongs property. have in power, own. long assert myself holder, proprietor of thing. not step shyly property, upon property, in respect nothing. pray call property! . concept of egoistic property not rejects moral restraint on how 1 obtains , uses things, includes other people well.


though stirner s philosophy individualist, has influenced libertarian communists , anarcho-communists. ourselves council generalized self-management discusses stirner , speaks of communist egoism, said synthesis of individualism , collectivism, , says greed in fullest sense possible basis of communist society. forms of libertarian communism such insurrectionary anarchism influenced stirner. anarcho-communist emma goldman influenced both stirner , peter kropotkin , blended philosophies in own.








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