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Biography Stirner's birthplace in Bayreuth. Stirner was born in Bayreuth, Bavaria.What little is known of his life is mostly due to the Scottish-born German writer John Henry Mackay, who wrote a biography of Stirner (Max Stirner – sein Leben und sein Werk), published in German in 1898 (enlarged 1910, 1914) and translated into English in 2005.
Jun 27, 2002 · Max Stirner (1806–1856) is the author of Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum (1844). This book is usually known as The Ego and Its Own in English, but a more literal, and informative, translation would be The Unique Individual and their Property. Both the form and content of Stirner’s major work are disconcerting.
Apr 10, 2024 · Max Stirner (born October 25, 1806, Bayreuth, Bavaria [Germany]—died June 26, 1856, Berlin, Prussia) was a German antistatist philosopher in whose writings many anarchists of the late 19th and the 20th centuries found ideological inspiration. His thought is sometimes regarded as a source of 20th-century existentialism.
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The Ego and Its Own ( German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum ), also known as The Unique and Its Property [1] [2] [3] is an 1844 work by German philosopher Max Stirner. It presents a post-Hegelian critique of Christianity and traditional morality on one hand; and on the other, humanism, utilitarianism, liberalism, and much of the then-burgeoning ...
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Jun 27, 2002 · 1. Stirner's Life and Work. Stirner was born Johann Caspar Schmidt on 25 October 1806, the only child of lower middle class Lutheran parents living in Bayreuth.(‘Stirner’ was originally a nickname, resulting from his large forehead, and only later adopted — as ‘Max Stirner’ — as a literary pseudonym, and as his preferred name.)
Jun 15, 2011 · Stirner’s criticsby Max Stirner. The following three notable writings have come out against The Unique and Its Own : Szeliga’s critique in the March edition of the “Northern German Gazette”; “On The Essence of Christianity in Relation to The Unique and Its Own ” in the latest volume of Wigand’s Quarterly Review ;
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Precursor to Existentialism, individualist feminism, Nihilism, Post-Modernism, Post-structuralism . Johann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856), better known as Max Stirner, was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of ...
