SOUTHPORT ELECTION SEQUEL POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS The Southport Police Court was crowded today when John Aspinall, Peter James Halsall and James Sumner were charged with assault by Miss Mary Gawthorpe, Miss Dora Marsden and Miss Mabel Capper, suffragists, and there was a further summons brought by Miss Dora Marsden and others against Councillor Dr Arthur […]
This new edition of the underground work is the first time it has been in print in 40 years. Expanded with an updated introduction, index and illustrations. Speakers’ Corner in London’s famous Hyde Park has been an oasis of free speech, and this collection highlights many of the eccentric figures and philosophies espoused there. Available […]
Two minor previously undocumented ephemeral mentions of Dora Marsden, editor of The Egoist. First, two lines from the book-length poem The Atheist by George Bedborough (London: Garden City Press, 1919)… “Dora Marsden writes well and so do her friends, / But The Egoist sometimes to crankiness tends.” Second, an advertisement for The Egoist which appeared […]
A plea for pity in the face of the battalions of Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Stirner, from the pages of The Suffragette for April 24, 1914. Valentine Francis Goldie-Taubman (1875 – ?) was an author. They say – the practical, unsentimental folk – that this attitude of sympathy cannot last; that by our own […]
Steven T. Byington created the first full English translation of Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, which was published in 1907. It has been republished many times and subsequently edited by numerous editors. We addressed the question “(What is the) Best version of ‘Einzige’ in English” in a blog post. Max Stirner wrote in Der Einzige […]
On October 2, 2013, the Dallas Auction Gallery listed the following: Edmond-Francois Aman-Jean, “Celine Adele Marillier” oil on canvas, 1885. Signed and inscribed in gold upper right “Anno – MDCCCLXXXV / Aman Jean pinxit / Imago Celine Adele Marillier / Aetatis Suae / XXV”. Canvas: 45.5”H x 35.5”W; Frame: 50”H x 40”W. Provenance: […]
The Union of Egoists website was announced April 1st of 2016 with the release of Max Stirner Bibliography by Trevor Blake. Happy anniversary to the royal Us. The idea for this site and much else was crystalized in a chat of February 2nd, 2016 between Trevor Blake and Kevin I. Slaughter. This chat was printed […]
Leo Markun provides a strong introduction to the history, life, and philosophy of Johann Caspar Schmidt, known professionally as Max Stirner, the father of Egoism. This long essay was first released in 1925 as part of the Little Blue Book series by the prolific publisher Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951). Available from Underworld Amusements This booklet was […]
I Enrique Magon Conditions would crush me, Dull dunces would hush me, If I were not I. The world would enchain me, Each fool would restrain me, If I were not I. Dear friends would ignore me And blockheads would bore me Until I should die; But I know the rabble, Their rant and […]
Vox populi vox dei. It is more often the voice of the ventriloquist. The war lords, press lords and money lords pull the string and the figure works. “The people is a beast of muddy brain” wrote Campenella nearly 400 years ago “that knows not its own strength. Confused and stupefied by bugbears vain, with […]
