Existentialist anarchism Egoist anarchism

in united kingdom herbert read influenced highly egoism later came close existentialism. david goodway in herbert read reassessed writes in read s education through art (1943) here have egoism of max stirner assimilated in anarchist communism of peter kropotkin. cites read affirmation shows egoism s influence:

uniqueness has no practical value in isolation. 1 of lessons of modern psychology , of recent historical experiences, education must process, not of individuation, of integration, reconciliation of individual uniqueness social unity ... individual in degree individuality realized within organic wholeness of community.

albert camus

albert camus devotes section of rebel stirner. consigns him dwelling in desert of isolation , negation drunk destruction . camus accuses stirner of going far can in blasphemy . proclaims stirner intoxicated perspective of justifying crime although without mentioning stirner distinguishes between ordinary criminal , criminal violator of sacred . mishaps misquoting stirner through asserting specifies in relation other human beings kill them, not martyr them when in fact writes can kill them, not torture them —and in relation moralist both kills , tortures serve concept of . although throughout book camus concerned present rebel preferred alternative revolutionary acknowledges distinction taken 1 stirner makes between revolutionary , insurrectionist .