Max Stirner

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Re-encountering Stirner’s Ghosts

   1. Introduction: Re-encountering Stirner’s Ghosts

      • Saul Newman

      Pages 1-18

3. Historical Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. A Solitary Life

      • David Leopold

      Pages 21-41

   3. The Mirror of Anarchy: The Egoism of John Henry Mackay and Dora Marsden

      • Ruth Kinna

      Pages 42-63

4. Key Works

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. The Multiplicity of Nothingness: A Contribution to a Non-reductionist Reading of Stirner

      • Riccardo Baldissone

      Pages 67-88

   3. The Philosophical Reactionaries: ‘The Modern Sophists’ by Kuno Fischer

      • G. Edward, Widukind De Ridder

      Pages 89-109

5. Themes and Debates

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Max Stirner and Karl Marx: An Overlooked Contretemps

      • Paul Thomas

      Pages 113-142

   3. Max Stirner: The End of Philosophy and Political Subjectivity

      • Widukind De Ridder

      Pages 143-164

6. Contemporary Relevance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Why Anarchists Need Stirner

      • Kathy E. Ferguson

      Pages 167-188

   3. Stirner’s Ethics of Voluntary Inservitude

      • Saul Newman

      Pages 189-209

7. Back Matter

   Pages 210-223

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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.

• anarchy
• ethics
• Humanism
• Karl Marx
• Marx
• philosophy
• politics
• religiosity

• Department of Politics, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

  Saul Newman

RICCARDO BALDISSONE Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University, Australia WIDUKIND DE RIDDER Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Social-Economic History at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium KATHY FERGUSON Professor in the Department of Political Science and Women's Studies Program, at the University of Hawai'I, USA RUTH KINNA Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at the University of Loughborough, UK DAVID LEOPOLD University Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, UK SAUL NEWMAN Reader in Political Theory at Goldsmiths University of London, UK PAUL THOMAS Professor of Political Science, specializing in political theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA

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