The Ego And His Own: The Case Of The Individual Against Authority (Radical Thinkers Book 8)

Challenging the religious, philosophical and political constraints on personal freedom, the author criticizes all doctrines and beliefs that place the interests of God, the state, humanity or society over those of the individual. Reprint of the 1963 ed. published by the Libertarian Book Club, New York. The Ego and His Own , the seminal defence of individualism, coloured the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Ernst, Henrik Ibsen and Victor Serge, among many others, some of whom would vigorously deny any such influence in later years. Less reticent was Marcel Duchamp, who described Max Stirner as the philosopher most important to his work. Challenging the religious, philosophical and political constraints on personal freedom, Stirner criticizes all doctrines and beliefs that place the interests of God, the state, humanity or society over those of the individual. Anticipating the later work of nihilists, existentialists, and anarchists, The Ego and His Own upholds personal autonomy against all that might oppose it. **The Ego and Its Own** (German: *Der Einzige und sein Eigentum*; meaningfully translated as **The Individual and his Property**, literally as **The Unique and His Property**) is an 1844 work by German philosopher *Max Stirner*. It presents a radically nominalist and individualist critique of Christianity, nationalism, and traditional morality on one hand; and on the other, humanism, utilitarianism, liberalism, and much of the then-burgeoning socialist movement, advocating instead an amoral (although importantly not inherently immoral or antisocial) egoism. It is considered a major influence on the development of anarchism, existentialism, nihilism, and postmodernism. The prophetic defense of individualism against the common good, influenced figures ranging from Nietzsche to Ayn Rand. Challenging the religious, philosophical and political depreciation of the individual, Stirner criticizes all doctrines and beliefs that demand the interests of the individual be subordinated to those of God, the state, humanity or society. The Ego and His Own is a passionate defense of the individual against all forms of authority, from one of the founding fathers of anarchist thought Editor's introduction -- Translator's preface -- All these things are nothing to me -- Part first: Man. I: A human life -- II. Men of the old time and the new. A: the ancients -- B: the moderns. The spirit -- The possessed -- The hierarchy -- C: the free. Political liberalism -- Social liberalism -- Humane liberalism -- Part second: I. III. Ownness -- IV. The owner. My power -- My intercourse -- My self-enjoyment -- V. The unique one. Ya a los pocos anos de su publicacion se hablaba de El unico como de un libro "de mala nota".