Stirner: The Ego and its Own / Edition 1

by Max Stirner, David Leopold

Overview

Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1844) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Moses Hess and others to sound the death-knell of Left Hegelianism. The work also constitutes an enduring critique of liberalism and socialism from the perspective of an extreme eccentric individualism. Stirner has latterly been portrayed variously as a precursor of Nietzsche, a forerunner of existentialism, an individualist anarchist, and as manifestly insane. This edition includes an Introduction placing Stirner in his historical context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521456470
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/06/1995
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.39(w) x 8.62(h) x 1.02(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Principal events in Stirner's life; Further reading; Note on the translation; The Ego and its own; Bibliographical and other notes on the text; Index of subjects; Index of proper names.

Editorial Reviews

"Recommended as a classic in anarchist thought. This is the best edition available." —Reader's Review

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