num_pages: 432
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Ego and Its Own
titlecomplete: The Ego and Its Own
genres: Psychology, German Literature, Classics, Theory, Philosophy, Anarchism, Germany, 19th Century, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3171
publisher: Cambridge University Press