The Ego and Its Own
Stirner's main work "The Ego and Its Own" ("Der Einzige und sein Eigentum") appeared in Leipzig in October 1844, with as year of publication mentioned 1845. In "The Ego And Its Own", Stirner launches a radical anti-authoritarian and individualist critique of contemporary Prussian society and modern western society as such. He offers an approach to human existence in which he depicts himself as "the unique one", a "creative nothing", beyond the ability of language to fully express, stating that "[i]f I concern myself for myself, the unique one, then my concern rests on its transitory, mortal creator, who consumes himself, and I may say: All things are nothing to me".