Stirner

Stirner''s The Ego and its Own (1844) is striking in both style and content attacking Feuerbach Moses Hess and others to sound the death-knell of Left Hegelianism. The work also constitutes an enduring critique of liberalism and socialism from the perspective of an extreme eccentric individualism. Stirner has latterly been portrayed variously as a precursor of Nietzsche a forerunner of existentialism an individualist anarchist and as manifestly insane. This edition includes an Introduction placing Stirner in his historical context.