Max Stirner
By: edited by Saul Newman
Series: Critical explorations in contemporary political thought series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780230283350
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Influence; German Philosophy
Description: Max Stirner was one of the most important and seminal thinkers of the mid-nineteenth century. In the shadows of Hegel, Stirner developed possibly the most radical and devastating critique ever of the discourses of modernity, incurring the ire of Marx, prefiguring Nietzsche, and having a major (though often unacknowledged) impact on diverse streams of thought, from existentialism to anarchism and autonomism, literary and artistic avant-gardes, and postmodern theory. This edited volume investigates Stirner's impact on critical thinking and social and political thought, exploring his radical and contemporary importance as a political theorist. In unmasking the religiosity lurking behind discourses of humanism and rationalism, and the domination of the individual immanent within liberal modes of politics, Stirner demolished the ontological foundations and universal grand narratives of our modernity. His thought has implications for contemporary questions of ideology, power, subjectivity, ethics and action, and opens the way for entirely new forms of politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : re-encountering Stirner's ghosts / Saul Newman; title: A solitary life / David Leopold; title: The mirror of anarchy : the egoism of John Henry Mackay and Dora Marsden / Ruth Kinna; title: The multiplicity of nothingness : a contribution to a non-reductionist reading of Stirner / Riccardo Balidissone; title: The philosophical reactionaries : 'The modern sophists by Kuno Fischer' / by G. Edward [Max Stirner] (translated and introduced by Widukind De Ridder); title: Max Stirner and Karl Marx : an overlooked contretemps / Paul Thomas; title: Max Stirner : the end of philosophy and political subjectivity / Widukind De Ridder; title: Why anarchists need Stirner / Kathy Ferguson; title: Stirner's ethics of voluntary inservitude / Saul Newman.