STIRNER, Max.

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Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum. First edition, with the original printed wrappers bound in, of Stirner's masterpiece, a founding text of political anarchism, and a key influence on Marx's approach to human nature and individualism.Max Stirner (the pseudonym of Johann Kaspar Schmidt, 1806-1856) attended Hegel's lectures at Berlin and later found himself alongside Marx and Engels in the Young Hegelians group. Der Einzige (usually translated as The Ego and Its Own), had a devastating effect on that group, particularly in its charge that they had failed to break with religious modes of thought. Stirner advocates an anarchistic egoism which recognises no obligations outside the individual, denies all absolutes, and attacks systematic philosophies of every kind. In particular, this approach forced Marx (who is indirectly mentioned in a footnote) to think much more carefully about the individualist aspects of communism.

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