文档介绍：MaxStirner's TheEgo and Its Own has been called 'the most
revolutionary[book]ever written'. Firstpublished in1844, Stir­
ner'sdistinctive andpowerful polemic sounded thedeath-knell
ofleftHegelianism, withits attack onLudwig Feuerbach, Bruno
Bauer,Moses Hess and others. Itcontains anenduring, and
strikinglywritten,critique ofboth liberalism andsocialism from
theperspective ofan extreme entric individualism. Karl
Marxwas only one of many contemporaries provokedinto a leng­
thyrebuttal ofStiroer's argument. More recently, Stiroer has
beenvariously portrayed asa nihilistic anarchist, a precursor
ofNietzsche, a forermmer ofexistentialism, andas manifestly
insane.
Thisedition ofStiroer's prises a revised version of
StevenByington's much-praised translation, together withan
introductionandnotes onthe historical background toStirner's
text.
CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE
HISTORY OF POLITICALTHOUGHT
MAX STIRNER
The EgoandIts Own
CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE
HISTORYOF POLITICALTHOUGHT
Serieseditors
RAYMONDGEUSS
LecturerinPhilosophy, University ojCambridge
QUENTINSKINNER
RegiusProftssor ojModern History inthe University oJCambridge
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