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    The Ego and His Own
    The Ego and His Own
    The Ego and His Own
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    The Ego and His Own

    Written by Max Stirner

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    In this book, his most famous, Max Stirner presents a philosophical case for a radical egoism that shuns the socially-oriented outlooks of both "establishment" ideologies and of revolutionaries in favor of an extreme individualism. The book is most widely talked about today only through the lens of other philosophers' thought: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels launched a famous assault on it in The German Ideology, and some draw a connection between Stirner's thoughts here and Nietzsche's egoism a generation later. But it is worth reading in its own right, as much for its lyricism as the challenge of its philosophical proposals. (Summary by Mat Messerschmidt)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Max Stirner

    Max Stirner was a German philosopher who is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism, and anarchism.

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      TWO STARS for the quality of the audio: it is abysmal and inconsistent (at least three different people voice various sections). I rate the content of the book as FIVE STARS. The perspective given is very useful for reevaluating and understanding the groups we belong to. Not very prescriptive; more descriptive.