The Ego and His Own (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Max Stirner

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ISBN 10 : 1451011172 ISBN 13 : 9781451011173

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A provocative classic of individualism and freedom, now accessible in a careful English translation.

It challenges ordinary ideas about right, law, and society through the voice of a single, uncompromising ego.

Originally published as a landmark in egoist philosophy, this edition presents Max Stirner’s arguments about how personal will, law, and social power shape what we call rights. The translator’s notes and editor’s commentary help readers grasp Stirner’s critique of birthrights, “well-earned” rights, and the state’s claim to govern the self. The book invites you to question who determines what counts as right, and why power often masquerades as law.

Expect a lucid, if demanding, study of how individuals relate to authority, property, and their own will. The text moves from the idea of the “owner” of the self to a broader critique of social and political structures, while staying in the realm of practical thought rather than theory alone. This edition foregrounds the work’s historical context and its ongoing influence on debates about liberty and autonomy.

• Explore the tension between personal will and institutional power
• Trace the book’s arguments about law, right, and ownership of the self
• Learn how translation and editorial choices shape interpretation
• Engage with a foundational text in the history of anarchist and egoist thought

Ideal for readers of philosophy, political theory, and self‑inquiry who want to understand how one thinker redefines freedom and responsibility.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

For more than twenty years I have entertained the design of publishing an English translation of Der Einzige und sein Eigentum.1 When I formed this design, the number of English-speaking persons who had ever heard of the book was very limited. The memory of Max Stirner had been virtually extinct for an entire generation. But in the last two decades there has been a remarkable revival of interest both in the book and in its author. It began in this country with a discussion in the pages of the Anarchist periodical, Liberty, in which Stirner sthought was clearly expounded and vigorously championed by Dr. James L. Walker, who adopted for this discussion the pseudonym Tak Kak. At that time Dr. Walker was the chief editorial writer for the Galveston News. Some years later he became a practising physician in Mexico, where he died in 1904. A series of essays which he began in an Anarchist periodical, Egoism, and which he lived to complete, was published after his death in a small volume, The Philosophy of Egoism. It is a very able and convincing exposition of Stirner steachings, and almost the only one that exists in the English language. But the chief instrument in the revival of Stirnerism was and is the German poet, John Henry Mackay. Very early in his career hemet Stirner sname in Lange s History of Materialism, and was moved thereby to read his book. The work made such an impression on him that he resolved to devote a portion of his life to the rediscovery and rehabilitation of the lost and forgotten genius.
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Biographie de l'auteur

Johann Kaspar Schmidt (1806–1856), better known as Max Stirner (the nom de plume he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of his high brow, in German 'Stirn'), was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism. Stirner's main work is The Ego and Its Own, also known as The Ego and His Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in German, which translates literally as The Only One and his Property). This work was first published in 1844 in Leipzig, and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1451011172
• ISBN 13: 9781451011173
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 545
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