The Ego and Its Own

Max Stirner; David Leopold

ISBN 10: 0521456479 / ISBN 13: 9780521456470

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1995

About this Item

21.5 x 13.5 cm. xl 386pp. Remainder mark to bottom edge and foredge else a nice copy. Part of the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Revised edition of Steven Byington's translation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ego and Its Own
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521456479
• ISBN 13: 9780521456470
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
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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.

From the Back Cover

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.