The Ego And Its Own: The Case Of The Individual Against Authority

Max Stirner

ISBN 10: 0946061009 / ISBN 13: 9780946061006

Published by Rebel Press, 1993

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Synopsis:

Claimed repeatedly to be the most radical book ever written, The Ego And Its Own throws down a challenge to thousands of years of religious, philosophical and political depreciation of the individual. Criticising all doctrines and beliefs that demand the interests of the individual be subordinated to those of God, state, humanity, society, or some other fiction, Stirner declared war on all creeds that threatened individuality. In doing so, he championed a form of amoral egoism which still provokes cries of horror from moralists of right and left, religious and secular. The classic, from one of the founding fathers of anarchist thought, and a passionate defence of the individual against all forms of authority. Claimed repeatedly to be the most radical book ever written, The Ego And Its Own throws down a challenge to thousands of years of religious, philosophical and political depreciation of the individual. Criticising all doctrines and beliefs that demand the interests of the individual be subordinated to those of God, state, humanity, society, or some other fiction, Stirner declared war on all creeds that threatened individuality. In doing so, he championed a form of amoral egoism which still provokes cries of horror from moralists of right and left, religious and secular. The classic, from one of the founding fathers of anarchist thought, and a passionate defence of the individual against all forms of authority.

Book Description: Attacking Feuerbach, Moses Hess and others to sound the death-knell of Left Hegelianism, The Ego and its Own (1844) constitutes an enduring critique of liberalism and socialism from the perspective of an extreme eccentric individualism. This edition includes an Introduction that places Stirner in his historical context.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Ego And Its Own: The Case Of The ...
Publisher: Rebel Press
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good