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You are possessed. A being outside yourself has taken control of your mind, body, and soul. It commands you to do things against your will, and torments you with feelings of guilt and pain. This being is not a demon, or a ghost, though it might as well be. This being is an ideal. Your ideals, whether thrust upon you by society or adopted out of a sense of duty, your ideals put you in bondage and make your life miserable. They haunt your head, as sure as any spook could do.

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 ...

Was macht den Menschen aus? Wie wurde er, was er ist? Welche großen Denker haben unsere Entwicklung beeinflusst? Unsere Box vereint Grundlagentexte der philosophischen Theorie über die Jahrtausende – und den ganzen Erdkreis.

"Der Einzige und sein Eigentum" ist nicht nur Max Stirners (1806 - 1856) Hauptwerk, es ist quasi sein einziges. Und doch liefert es einen unschätzbaren Debattenbeitrag im Diskurs "Was ist der Mensch", auf den sich alle wichtigen nachfolgenden Philosophen bezogen. Ein faszinierendes Dokument seiner Zeit!

Freiheit, Selbstbestimmung und Selbstverwirklichung, gegen Unterdrückung und Repression, gegen die Herrschaft von Menschen über Menschen, dafür steht der Anarchismus...