Stirner: The Ego and its Own

Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1844) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Moses Hess and others to sound the death-knell of Left Hegelianism. The work also constitutes an enduring critique of liberalism and socialism from the perspective of an extreme eccentric individualism. Stirner has latterly been portrayed variously as a precursor of Nietzsche, a forerunner of existentialism, an individualist anarchist, and as manifestly insane. This edition includes an Introduction placing Stirner in his historical context.

• No competition for this revised translation with introduction and critical apparatus for students
• Important text in nineteenth-century German political and philosophical thought, influential for Nietzsche and existentialism
• Attacks Left Hegelians and also socialism, rebutted in detail by Marx