Max Stirner

Max Stirner
Stirner as portrayed by Friedrich Engels
Born
Johann Kaspar Schmidt

(1806-10-25)25 October 1806
Bayreuth, Kingdom of Bavaria
Died26 June 1856(1856-06-26) (aged 49)
Berlin, Prussia, German Confederation
Education
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School
Main interests
Egoism, ethics, ontology, pedagogy, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, philosophy of education,[2] property theory, psychology, value theory, philosophy of love, dialectic
Notable ideas
  • Personalism in education[2]
  • Eigenheit (transl. ownness)
  • creative nothing
  • self-forgetfulness
  • insurrection
  • Der Einzige (The Unique)
  • "Property-worlds"
  • Union of egoists

Johann Kaspar Schmidt (25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known professionally as Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness.[3] Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism.[4][5]

Stirner's main work, The Unique and Its Property[6][7] (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum), was first published in 1844 in Leipzig and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations.[8][9]

  1. ^ Welsh, John F. (2010). Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism. Lexington Books.
  2. ^ a b https://archive.org/details/sparrowsnest-10358/mode/2up The False Principle of our Education by Stirner, Max; Publication date 1967
  3. ^ Stepelevich, Lawrence (1985). "Max Stirner as Hegelian" (PDF). Journal of the History of Ideas. 46 (4): 597–614. doi:10.2307/2709548. JSTOR 2709548. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  4. ^ Leopold, David (4 August 2006). "Max Stirner". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  5. ^ Goodway, David. Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow. Liverpool University Press, 2006, p. 99.
  6. ^ Blumenfeld, Jacob (2018). All Things Are Nothing To Me (1st ed.). Zero Books. p. 17. ISBN 9781785358951.
  7. ^ Swain, Dan; Urban, Petr; Malabou, Catherine; Kouba, Petr (2021). Unchaining Solidarity: On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou (1st ed.). Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 83–103. ISBN 9781538157954.
  8. ^ A Ready Reference to Philosophy East and West Archived 30 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ^ Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory Archived 29 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine.