Stirner: The Ego and its Own

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:	9780521450164
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/06/1995
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	839,830
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.14(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.

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