Max Stirner

by Newman, Saul

• ISBN13: 9780230283350
• ISBN10: 0230283357
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Max Stirner was one of the most important and seminal thinkers of the mid-nineteenth century. He exposed the religiosity behind secular humanism and rationalism, and the domination of the individual behind liberal modes of politics. This edited collection explores Stirner's radical and contemporary importance as a political theorist.

Author Biography

SAUL NEWMANis Reader in Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.His research interests are in Continental and poststructuralist political thought, postanarchist theory and contemporary radical politics. He is the author of From Bakunin to Lacan (2001); Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought (2005); Unstable Universalities (2007); Politics Most Unusual (2008); and The Politics of Postanarchism (2010).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Re-encountering Stirner's ghosts; S. Newman
SECTION ONE - HISTORICAL CONTEXT
A Solitary Life; D. Leopold
The Mirror of Anarchy: the Egoism of John Henry Mackay and Dora Marsden; R. Kinna
SECTION TWO - KEY WORKS
The Multiplicity of Nothingness: A Contribution to a Non-reductionist Reading of Stirner; R. Balidissone
The Philosophical Reactionaries. 'The Modern Sophists by Kuno Fischer'; translated and introduced by W. De Ridder
SECTION THREE - THEMES AND DEBATES
Max Stirner and Karl Marx: An Overlooked Contretemps; P. Thomas
Max Stirner: The End of Philosophy and Political Subjectivity; W. De. Ridder
SECTION FOUR - CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE
Why Anarchists Need Stirner; K. Ferguson
Stirner's Ethics of Voluntary Inservitude; S. Newman
Bibliography
Index