Max Stirner

Johann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25, 1806 – June 26, 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 ), German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of nihilism, existentialism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism. Stirner himself explicitly denied to hold any absolute position in his philosophy, further stating that if he must be identified with some "-ism" let it be egoism — the antithesis of all ideologies and social causes, as he conceived of it.

Reference

Works by Stirner

• Stirner, Max : Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, Leipzig, 1844.
• Stirner, Max : "Stirner's Critics", translated by Frederick M. Gordon from "Recensenten Stirners", in Max Stirner's Kleinere Schriften und Entgegnungen, John Henry Mackay, ed, Berlin, 1914.

External links

• Max Stirner in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, an extensive and recommended introduction
• Svein Olav Nybergs website on Max Stirner, with extensive links to texts and references
• The complete original text in German of "Der Einzige und sein Eigentum"
• The complete English edition of "The Ego and his Own", in the translation of Steven T. Byington.
• Recensenten Stirners / Stirner's Critics bilingual: full text in German / abridged text in English (trans. Frederick M. Gordon)
• Non Serviam, Internet periodical dedicated to Stirner's ideas
• Max Stirner, a durable dissident, 'How Marx and Nietzsche suppressed their colleague Max Stirner and why he has intellectually survived them'
• Stirner Delighted in His Construction — "loves miracles, but can only perform a logical miracle," by Karl Marx
• Nietzsche's initial crisis due to an encounter with Stirner's "The Ego" (of 2002)
• Max Stirner As Hegelian, By Lawrence S. Stepelevich