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The Ego and His Own

by Max Stirner

A philosophical case for a radical egoism that shuns the socially-oriented outlooks of both "establishment" ideologies and of revolutionaries in favor of an extreme individualism. 'The Ego and His Own' is most widely talked about today only through the lens of other philosophers' thought: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels launched a famous assault on it in The German Ideology, and some draw a connection between Stirner's thoughts here and Nietzsche's egoism a generation later. But it is worth reading in its own right, as much for its lyricism as the challenge of its philosophical proposals.

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Johann Kaspar Schmidt known professionally as Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, to whom nothing is sacred (indeed, not even himself) and maybe that's why he is so skilled at identif...

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