Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction: Re-encountering Stirner's ghosts; S.Newman SECTION ONE - HISTORICAL CONTEXT A Solitary Life; D.Leopold The Mirror of Anarchy: the Egoism of John Henry Mackay and Dora Marsden; R.Kinna SECTION TWO - KEY WORKS The Multiplicity of Nothingness: A Contribution to a Non-reductionist Reading of Stirner; R.Balidissone The Philosophical Reactionaries. 'The Modern Sophists by Kuno Fischer'; translated and introduced by W.De Ridder SECTION THREE - THEMES AND DEBATES Max Stirner and Karl Marx: An Overlooked Contretemps; P.Thomas Max Stirner: The End of Philosophy and Political Subjectivity; W.De.Ridder SECTION FOUR - CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE Why Anarchists Need Stirner; K.Ferguson Stirner's Ethics of Voluntary Inservitude; S.Newman Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Max Stirner was one of the most important and seminal thinkers of the mid-nineteenth century. He exposed the religiosity behind secular humanism and rationalism, and the domination of the individual behind liberal modes of politics. This edited collection explores Stirner's radical and contemporary importance as a political theorist.