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This book is a powerful exploration of the nature of the self and its relationship to the world. The author, writing in the mid-19th century, seeks to move beyond traditional philosophical and religious frameworks to understand the individual as a unique and self-determining entity. He challenges the notion of a higher, unifying essence that dictates our values, arguing instead that the true individual is "the only one" - a free spirit unbound by imposed ideals or societal expectations. The book delves into a range of themes, including the struggle for liberation from external forces, the dangers of subservience to abstract concepts like God, the State, or morality, and the importance of recognizing one’s own unique identity. The author examines the evolution of thought throughout history, highlighting how humanity has grappled with these concepts through various philosophical movements and religious doctrines. He ultimately presents a vision of a fully self-realized individual who exists as their own property, free from the constraints of external forces and possessing the power to define their own existence. The book’s unflinching analysis of self-ownership as the foundation for true liberation remains a potent and challenging call to individual autonomy.
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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.
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