Max Stirner
Hardcover | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 4.1 | 2128 Users | 149 Reviews
Details Appertaining To Books The Ego and Its Own
| Title | : | The Ego and Its Own |
| Author | : | Max Stirner |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | June 4th 1995 by Cambridge University Press (first published 1844) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Politics. Nonfiction |
Interpretation Concering Books The Ego and Its Own
Stirner's 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. This edition includes an Introduction placing Stirner in his historical context.Point Books Supposing The Ego and Its Own
| Original Title: | Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum |
| ISBN: | 0521450160 (ISBN13: 9780521450164) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Appertaining To Books The Ego and Its Own
Ratings: 4.1 From 2128 Users | 149 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books The Ego and Its Own
As much as I am fascinated by Stirner's radical individualism, or "egoism", his lack of brevity made this almost a chore to get through. If this had been 200-300 pages shorter, I'm confident I would have enjoyed it a lot more. Even a simple concept such as "might makes right" and "everything and everyone I can lay my hands on is my property", Stirner feels the need to expound on in over 100 pages, which leads to A LOT of needless repetition. I feel like Stirner is overcompensating because hisStirner is a philosopher to whom nothing is sacred (indeed, not even himself) and maybe that's why he is so skilled at identifying abstract concepts and 'dissolving' them. In the introduction, he immediately offers the following argument as to why God is actually an egoist:Has he, as is demanded of us, made an alien cause, the cause of truth or love, his own? You are shocked by this misunderstanding, and you instruct us that Gods cause is indeed the cause of truth and love, but that this cause
It's Might is Right, but German. More perfidious, less violent. It's as if Ragnar Redbeard had traded in the steroids for an actual philosophical education. The introduction he wrote was a delight to read. At least at the time. Nowadays, I'm far less inclined to call myself an egoist, but would probably still admire the rhetorics. While Stirners sneering is occasionally entertaining, it gets boring fast, however. Worse, he either seems to have forgotten the actual argumentation, or it got lost
One of the best books I've ever read! It has truly opened my eyes to many things and has changed me. I have always struggled with the issue of ego as I have always perceived in in the traditional sense. But now I see it differently and I have become more aware of the power of the self and freedom of mind. This book can be the best book to read and the most dangerous at the same time. I believe that if one was not mature enough intellectually it might become an excuse to be irresponsible.
It's 19th century German philosophy, so it's sometimes dated, often circuitous, but occasionally so blindingly brilliant I had to set the book down and spent some time reflecting on what he had just said.I think overall he has some interesting ideas, but this lecture about him is far, far more accessible than reading this book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvsoV...
The Ego and It's Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum) is a manifesto of individualism and marks a pivotal schism in philosophic thought among the Young Hegelians. Set amidst the backdrop of a tumultuous 19th century Europe embroiled in revolution and rapid industrializaiton, Stirner's opus of Egoism stands in stark contrast to the idealism of his intellectual contemporaries. Bruno Bauer and Ludwig Feuerbach receive the brunt of Stirner's whippings in the initial sections of the book, as he
Amazing.One of the most penetrating books I've read in a long time, possibly ever. Anyone who has any opinion on politics, morality, or religion needs to pick this up. Banish the wheels from your head which have been put there by spooks! Live not for religious notions but for yourself!All things are nothing to me!!
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