Stirner: The Ego and its Own (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Softcover

Max Stirner

 
9780521456470: Stirner: The Ego and its Own (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521456479 ISBN 13: 9780521456470
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own is striking and distinctive in both style and content. First published in 1844, Stirner's distinctive and powerful polemic sounded the death-knell of left Hegelianism, with its attack on Ludwig Feuerbach, Bruno and Edgar Bauer, Moses Hess and others. It also constitutes an enduring critique of both liberalism and socialism from the perspective of an extreme eccentric individualism. Karl Marx was only one of many contemporaries provoked into a lengthy rebuttal of Stirner's argument. Stirner has been portrayed, variously, as a precursor of Nietzsche (both stylistically and substantively), a forerunner of existentialism and as an individualist anarchist. This edition of his work comprises a revised version of Steven Byington's much praised translation, together with an introduction and notes on the historical background to Stirner's text.

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This edition of Stirner's work comprises a revised version of Steven Byington's much-praised translation, together with an introduction and notes on the historical background to Stirner's text.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521456479
ISBN 13 
9780521456470
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
432
Editor
David Leopold