October 25, 1806 — June 26, 1856
Description : Max Stirner? The philosophizing petit bourgeois to whom Karl Marx had given the brush-off? The anarchist, egoist, nihilist, the crude precursor of Nietzsche? Yes, he. (From : Bernd Laska Bio)
Tags : anarchist, egoist, individualist, philosopher, writer, german, bavarian, anti-state, freethinker, anti-nationalist.
Quotes :
"Alienness is a criterion of the 'sacred.' In everything sacred there lies something 'uncanny,' strange, such as we are not quite familiar and at home in." (From : "The Ego and Its Own," by Max Stirner, 1845, publish date of 1844. Part 1, Chapter II, Section 2, Sub-Section 2.)
"...interest in spiritual things, when it is alive, is and must be fanaticism..." (From : "The Ego and Its Own," by Max Stirner, 1845, publish date of 1844. Part 1, Chapter II, Section 2, Sub-Section 2.)
"Who is there that has never, more or less consciously, noticed that our whole education is calculated to produce feelings in us, impart them to us, instead of leaving their production to ourselves however they may turn out?" (From : "The Ego and Its Own," by Max Stirner, 1845, publish date of 1844. Part 1, Chapter II, Section 2, Sub-Section 2.)
"When I had exalted myself to be the owner of the world, egoism had won its first complete victory, had vanquished the world, had become worldless, and put the acquisitions of a long age under lock and key." (From : "The Ego and Its Own," by Max Stirner, 1845, publish date of 1844. Part 1, Chapter II, Section 2, Sub-Section 3.)
"One must act 'disinterestedly,' not want to benefit himself, but the state. Hereby the latter has become the true person, before whom the individual personality vanishes; not I live, but it lives in me." (From : "The Ego and Its Own," by Max Stirner, 1845, publish date of 1844. Part 1, Chapter II, Section 3, Sub-Section 1.)
"If the welfare of the state is the end, war is a hallowed means; if justice is the state's end, homicide is a hallowed means, and is called by its sacred name, 'execution'; the sacred state hallows everything that is serviceable to it." (From : "The Ego and Its Own," by Max Stirner, 1845, publish date of 1844. Part 1, Chapter II, Section 3, Sub-Section 1.)
"...turn to yourselves rather than to your gods or idols. Bring out from yourselves what is in you, bring it to the light, bring yourselves to revelation." (From : "The Ego and Its Own," by Max Stirner, 1845, publish date of 1844. Part 2, Chapter I..)
"As long as there still exists even one institution which the individual may not dissolve, the ownness and self-appurtenance of Me is still very remote. How can I be free when I must bind myself by oath to a constitution, a charter, a law, 'vow body and soul' to my people? How can I be my own when my faculties may develop only so far as they 'do not disturb the harmony of society'?" (From : "The Ego and Its Own," by Max Stirner, 1845, publish date of 1844. Part 2, Chapter II, Section 2.)
"If men reach the point of losing respect for property, every one will have property, as all slaves become free men as soon as they no longer respect the master as master." (From : "The Ego and Its Own," by Max Stirner, 1845, publish date of 1844. Part 2, Chapter II, Section 2.)
"Let my people, if they will, go without liberty of free press, I will manage to print by force or ruse; I get my permission to print only from - myself and my strength." (From : "The Ego and Its Own," by Max Stirner, 1845, publish date of 1844. Part 2, Chapter II, Section 2.)
Biography :
The philosophy of Max Stirner is credited as a major influence in the development of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism, and anarchism (especially of egoist anarchism, individualist anarchism, postanarchism, and post-left anarchy). Stirner's main philosophical work was The Ego and Its Own, also known as The Ego and His Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in German, which means, more accurately in German, The Individual and his Property).Stirner's philosophy has been cited as an influence on both his contemporaries, most notably Karl Marx (who was strongly opposed to Stirner's views), as well as subsequent thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Enrico Arrigoni, Steven T. Byington, Benjamin R. Tucker, Emile Armand, Albert Camus, and Saul Newman.
From : Wikipedia.
Works :
Author of The Ego and Its Own (November 30, 1843)
Author of Stirner's Critics (January 01, 1970)
Author of The False Principle of Our Education (January 01, 1970)
Author of You Only Have The Courage To Be Destructive (November 30, 1840)
Author of Of a member of the Berlin Community against the Publication to the 57 Clergymen (January 01, 1970)
Author of The Worker and the Government (November 30, 1919)
Author of Art and Religion (November 30, 1841)
Author of The Philosophical Reactionaries (November 30, 1846)
Chronology :
October 25, 1806 : Max Stirner's Birth Day.
June 26, 1856 : Max Stirner's Death Day.
November 15, 2016 : Max Stirner's Added.
January 09, 2022 : Max Stirner's Updated.
Links :
• Anarchy Archives: Max Stirner Archive
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/stirner/Stirnerarchive.html
• Anarchist Library: Max Stirner
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/max-stirner
• Wikipedia: Max Stirner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner
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