Stirner, Max(1806–1856)
Max Stirner was the nom de plume of the German individualist philosopher Johann Kaspar Schmidt. Born in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Schmidt had a poor childhood. His academic car...
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The German philosopher Max Stirner (1806-1856) had considerable international influence as the outstanding German "theoretician of anarchism."Max Stirner, whose real name was Johann Caspar Schmidt, wa...
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Max Stirner's main treatise, Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum (1844; translated as The Ego and His Own, 1907), is an outrageous book, designed to call into question, if not to destroy, conventional valu...
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