Announcing Der Geist: The Journal of Egoism from 1845 to 1945 Vol.1 No.1

1845-1945, 1946-Today, Benjamin DeCasseres, Bibliographic, Clarence Lee Swartz, Der Geist, Dora Marsden, Events, James L. Walker, John Basil Barnhill, Kevin I. Slaughter, Malfew Seklew, Max Stirner, Ragnar Redbeard, Trevor Blake

April 1st, 2016 heralded in the beginning of UnionOfEgoists.com, and today (October 25th, 2017, the 211th birthday of Max Stirner) we announce its official journal: DER GEIST. Purchase from: Underworld Amusements Purchase from Amazon.com: US | MX | CA | UK | DE | FR | IT Library Edition, fifty dollars (please inquire) DER GEIST (Trevor Blake, editor) is an English-language journal for an international audience, publishing original scholarship […]

October 25, 2017

Introducing TheEgoAndHisOwn.com

1845-1945, 1946-Today, News

Today, in addition to the first issue of Der Geist Journal, we are releasing TheEgoAndHisOwn.com. It is a dedicated website hosting not only the entirety of the Stephen Byington English language translation of The Ego and His Own, but multiple introductions from English and foreign language editions, some never online or in English before now. Front Matter: […]

October 25, 2017

Malatesta and Individualism! by S.E. Paker (1975)

1946-Today, Sidney E. Parker

What follows is an essay by Sidney E. Parker that appeared in the anarchist journal The Vulture (1975), Vol.1 No.1, Summer 1975. TheVulture was published by Association Max Stirner du Kébec, a Canadian group that we know very little about. If you have any information on the group, please get in touch. This essay has also been […]

October 16, 2017

The Unique and Its Property | 2017 Review | The Independent Ego

1946-Today, Book, Max Stirner

A review of The Unique and Its Property from the blog Thus Spoke Me, used here with permission. The author uses twitter as The Independent Ego. “I Have Based My Affair on Nothing” is the beginning and end quote of Max Stirner’s most famous book The Unique and Its Property (Most commonly referred to as The […]

October 13, 2017

Egoism reviewed in Reason magazine

1946-Today, Book, Egoism

Egoism: The First Two Volumes 1890-1892 was the subject of a positive mini-review by @notjessewalker in @reason print magazine for Nov. 2017.

October 7, 2017

“Personally Acquainted,” a poem by J. William Lloyd

1845-1945, Clarence Lee Swartz, Egoism, Poetry

J. William Lloyd (1857 – 1940) was an individualist anarchist poet and author. The following poem was published in Georgia and Henry Replogle’s Egoism (1890), Vol.4 No.1, published in September, 1897. Lloyd founded his magazine, The Free Comrade, which first ran from 1900 to 1902, which was edited by Clarence Lee Swartz. There he championed anarchism, […]

October 2, 2017

SA1033 | The Right to Ignore the State | Herbert Spencer

1845-1945, Stand Alone

13th issue of the egoist journal “Stand Alone“. The Right to Ignore the State by Herbert Spencer 16 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″, Saddle-stitched Order: Underworld Amusements A new 16 page typesetting of Benjamin Tucker’s booklet published in 1907, the same year as his edition of The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner. It is only fair […]

September 27, 2017

EGOISM’S PURPOSE AND WHYFORE.

1845-1945, Egoism

The following kicks off the first issue of the fourth volume of Georgia and Henry Replogle’s Egoism (1890) published in September, 1897. EGOISM’S PURPOSE AND WHYFORE. EGOISM’S purpose is to make the Ego—the I, master, rather than the slave of his environment. To impel him to the self-entertaining sufficiency for his psychological cravings which places […]

September 25, 2017

Trevor Blake on Buckminster Fuller in “Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine”

1946-Today

I am very proud to announce that my good friend, and associate-editor here at UnionOfEgoists.com, Trevor Blake has a featured cover story in Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine, Volume 27 Number 9 / 10 (September / October 2017). Blake’s article “Buckminster Fuller: A Bibliographical Biography / Scenario”, relays his expertise on the subject. I have personally perused […]

September 22, 2017

Malfew Seklew: Surfessor of Egoism

1845-1945, Events, Malfew Seklew, Sidney E. Parker, Trevor Blake

“SURFESSOR OF EGOISM” [sic] is a delightful and informative and previously uncollected work about (and possibly by) Malfew Seklew. This article appeared in the Manchester Guardian (City Edition) Number 27,469 (September 25 1934) on page 20. Do the initials “M. S.” found at the end of the article indicate that Man Without a Soul was […]

September 20, 2017