by Max Stirner
The Ego and its Own (1845) 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.
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Currently reading Spinoza's ethics with an interest in Deleuze. Though some concepts may be "too self-contradictory" (despite attempts to irrationalize Hegel), to what extent is this book relevant beyond it's proto-existential value? Byington translation btw.
