Der Geist is the name of an English language digital blog and print journal reprinting and commenting on a century of egoist writing, focusing on the 100 years between 1845 – 1945. The journal is edited by Trevor Blake and co-edited and designed by Kevin I. Slaughter.

While the blog features news items and features a wider range of subject matter and time periods, updates about the website, short form ephemera and other items of long-term or transient interest, the print edition is more narrow in focus. Some of the work of Der Geist blog and journal is digital-first, some print-first, some digital exclusive, some print exclusive. The blog will feature contemporary news items when it is appropriate, but the journal will strictly be focused on figures, events and ideas from 1845-1945.

Prospectus

DER GEIST (Trevor Blake, editor) is an English-language journal for an international audience, publishing original scholarship on the philosophy of egoism. DER GEIST emphasizes the first century of egoism in print (from the 1845 publication of Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum by Max Stirner to the end of 1945).  DER GEIST is the permanent record of UnionOfEgoists.com, founded on 1 April 2016 by Kevin I. Slaughter and Trevor Blake. UnionOfEgoists.com has published hundreds of pages of rare historic egoist texts and will be publishing thousands more. DER GEIST is descriptive (about), not prescriptive (advocating), of egoism.   Scholarly interest in the egoism of Stirner, Marsden, Redbeard, Seklew and their peers (including Benjamin DeCasseres) has a new and unique home in DER GEIST.

Masthead

Subtitle: The Journal of Egoism 1845-1945
Editors: Trevor Blake & Kevin I. Slaughter
Subjects: Egoism between 1845 – 1945.

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Index of Issues

Der Geist | Issue 1 | Winter 2017
size: 6×9″ | pages: 160 | price: $15

Introduction Trevor Blake	2
“I” Clarence Lee Swartz	5
A Brief Travelogue of Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum Kevin I. Slaughter	6
An Ego Englished: Anglicizing Der Einzige Kevin I. Slaughter	14
I’ve Based My Cause ’Pon Nothing Max Stirner & H. J. Schirmer	19
Preface to Den Eneste Og Hans Ejendom Georg Brandes & Svein Olav Nyberg	22
Max Stirner Bibliography Addendum for 2017 Trevor Blake	27
Dora Marsden: Her Time, Her Life, Her Thoughts Trevor Blake	42
Dora Marsden and the Wrath of the Antis Trevor Blake	60
Vanoc II: The Strange Watchmaker Trevor Blake	63
Our Handbook: The Ego and Our Own Vanoc II	68
Self Love Maurice Cranston	72
Benjamin DeCasseres: A (Con)Founding Fortean Joshua Blu Buhs	74
Kept Benjamin DeCasseres	89
Max Stirner Benjamin DeCasseres	91
The Ego Malfew Seklew	98
Laughter Malfew Seklew	99
Gems of Thought Malfew Seklew	101
Unhatched Egos…  Malfew Seklew	103
Malfew Seklew, Street Fakir Warren Van Valkenburgh	107
The Superites Admit They Are the Best Extant Malfew Seklew	108
Malfew Seklew: Horse, Traps, Gigs, Landaus and Cabs Trevor Blake	109
The Sleeping and Singing Sirfessor Trevor Blake	110
The Dill Pickle Club: A Bright Spot In a Somber Town Trevor Blake	112
Du-Dil-Duk Trevor Blake	119
American Address: V. F. Gordon Trevor Blake	120
Egoists in the News Trevor Blake	121
“‘Individualism’ in the Mid-Nineteenth Century” David Westling	125
Fight Club 1914 Trevor Blake	127
Is Shakespeare Dead? Mark Twain	130
The Altruist Corner Trevor Blake	131
Egoists on Democracy Trevor Blake	139
First Photograph of Ragnar Redbeard Trevor Blake	147
A Unique Conversation Kevin I. Slaughter & Trevor Blake	150

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Der Geist | Issue 2 | Winter 2018
size: 6×9″ | pages: 188 | price: $15

Introduction Trevor Blake	2
Benjamin DeCasseres (Section)	5
Detroit Jewish Chronicle	7
Hate Everlasting Benjamin DeCasseres	10
Tales of a Psychometric Reporter: How I Interviewed Bacchus Benjamin DeCasseres	12
The Fatal Smile	17
Max Stirner (Section)	19
The Worker and the Government	21
What is Good? What is Evil? James Walker	23
Good Reading to Sharpen Mental Teeth	24
Vanitas William Flygare	25
Max Stirner Bibliography Addendum	27
L’Unique et sa propriété Max Ernst	33
The Unique Individual	34
I’ve Based My Affairs on Nothing Malcolm Green	38
Anthony Ludovici (Section)	41
Anthony M. Ludovici’s Egoism Kevin I. Slaughter	43
The Choice of a Mate Anthony M. Ludovici	45
Dora Marsden (Section)	47
Dora Marsden’s England Trevor Blake	49
Casandra and the War	51
To the Great Name Trevor Blake	52
Egoist Advertisement in The Little Review	57
Anend the Decalogue	58
…the Power of Thought N.C. Chritcher	65
Malfew Seklew (Section)	67
The Rejection of Christianity Malfew Seklew	69
Mr. F. Wilkesbarre, Coster	71
Surfessor of Egoism, Introduction Trevor Blake	74
MS – Surfessor of Egoism	76
A New Way to Earn a Living	79
… from the Labor Annual	82
Perfumed Pigs	83
Stars in the Talking Marathon	84
Victor Grayson M.P. – Introduction Trevor Blake	86
Victor Grayson M.P. / A Rhapsody	89
Henry and Georgia Replogle & Egoism (1890) (Section)	93
Egoism’s Purpose and Whyfore	95
Minus the Communism	98
The “Selfish” Bauble	101
J. Wm. Lloyd (Section)	103
Personally Acquainted	105
Anarchist Socialism	106
Dill Pickle Club Spencella Wilkesbarre(Section)	113
Up an Alley to a Wild Place John Nichols Beffel	115
Dill Pickle Club Patricia Bronte	116
Angels of the Dill Pickle Club Trevor Blake	122
The Optimist’s Ego Andrea Proudfoot	125
The Eagle and The Serpent (1898) (Section)	127
A Volcano Has Burst Forth in England C. L. Swartz	129
A Difference of Words Only Tak Kak	130
A Dream of Beyond Volcano	131
A Unanimous Conviction Volcano	133
Advertisement from the Labor Annual	134
Marginalia	135
Friedrich Nietzsche (Section)	137
Nietzsche William Gordak	139
Nietzsche In T.P.’s Weekly	140
Free Spirits (Section)	147
The Sidney E. Parker Archives Kevin I. Slaughter	149
Three Poems Émile Armand	166
Laurance Labadie and His Critics Herbert Roseman	169
The Altruist Corner	171
From the Library Kevin I. Slaughter	180
Photo of George Schumm	185
Patreon Thanks	186
Errata	187
About the Editors	188

 

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Der Geist | Issue 3 | Winter 2018
size: 6×9″ | pages: 188 | price: $15

Title / Author	Page
SECTION 1
Brave and Beautiful Trevor Blake	7
Dora Marsden, Hatless and Disheveled uncredited	9
Introduction to “The Next Advance ” Trevor Blake	17
The Freewoman—the Next Advance in the Progress of Feminism Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Review	20
The Malthusian League Trevor Blake	23
An Event of Considerable Importance The Malthusian League	25
Introduction to “A New Prophetess of Feminism” Trevor Blake	27
A New Prophetess of Feminism Frances Maule Bjorkman	28
SECTION 2
Introducing a Review of What is Mutualism? Wendy McElroy / Trevor Blake	39
Anarchist-Mutualism J. William Lloyd	40
Photograph of J William Lloyd in California J. William Lloyd	52
A Brief Sketch of the Life of J William Lloyd J. William Lloyd	53
Lecture to the Ferrer Colony J. William Lloyd	57
SECTION 3
“Seeing the Country in American Fashion ” uncredited	67
What Shall We Do to Be Saved? Malfew Seklew	69
Malfew Seklew Versus the Watery-Blooded Lucian	70
Nietzsche Again! Malfew Seklew	71
Portrait of Malfew Seklew uncredited	72
Sirfessor “A Commanding Personality” uncredited	73
Malfew Seklew Bibliography Trevor Blake	74
SECTION 4
To Butt, or Not to Butt Laurance Labadie	83
In a Pickle! Laurance Labadie	84
Laurance Labadie on Max Stirner’s Economic Views Laurance Labadie	85
E Armand, “Freedom” and the H-Bomb S.E. Parker / Laurance Labadie	86
SECTION 5
Max Stirner Bibliography—Supplement Three Trevor Blake	91
An Introduction to Der Eyntsiger un Zayn Eygentum Trevor Blake / Kevin I. Slaughter	95
Der Eyntsiger un Zayn Eygentum Y. A. Merison / Union of Egoists	97
SECTION 6
A History of the Radical Book Shop of Chicago Kevin I. Slaughter	105
An American Anarchist Lilian Hiller Udell	131
Revolutionary Essays Lillian Hiller Udell	134
Three Tributes to Georgia Replogle various	138
Three You Cannot Afford to Do Without Trevor Blake	140
Humanity First Letterhead John Basil Barnhill	142
The Man Born Blind Ambrose Bierce	143
Joel’s Literary Corner Carlo de Fornaro	145
Poems from the Imp Benjamin DeCasseres	147
The Altruists’ Corner Trevor Blake & Kevin I. Slaughter	154

 

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Der Geist | Issue 4 | Winter 2018
size: 6×9″ | pages: 188 | price: $15

Introduction Trevor Blake	2
Max Stirner / The Ego and His Own (Section)
Sacco and Vanzetti and Stirner The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti	7
John Henry Mackay’s Appreciation of Stirner Thomas Common (trans.)	9
Biographisches über den Übersetzer Max Stirner	14
Byington to Schumm on Translating Einzige Steven Byington	16
The Prehistory of The Ego Clarence Swartz, Benjamin Tucker	18
Max Stirner James Huneker	22
The Individualist Anarchist and the Dictator Raoul Hausmann	28
Das Unnwahre Prinzip Unserer Erziehung  Verlag für freies Geistesleben	31
L’Unique et sa Propriété Reviewed Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale	32
Dora Marsden (Section)
Dora Marsden Portrait The American Review of Reviews	37
Dora Marsden, Feminism’s New Prophetess The American Review of Reviews	38
Sky-scapes and Goodwill Dora Marsden	43
Malfew Seklew (Section)
Le Sirfesseur en France Malfew Seklew	53
Malfew Seklew, No Guide for Anybody The Sunday Referee	55
A Freak Among Reformers Malfew Seklew	56
Friedrich Nietzsche (Section)
The New Sophist, Frederick Nietsche John Davidson	59
Nietzsche on Egoism Friedrich Nietzsche, George Schumm	66
Ragnar Redbeard (Section)
“The Philosophy Of Power,” A Previously Unknown Speech By Ragnar Redbeard Chicago Commons	71
Illustrations and Photographs of Ragnar Redbeard and His Audience	86
On Mr. Smith and His Shocking Speech Trevor Blake	89
The Legend of Mammon Castle Henry Lawson	93
Marginalia The New Age	95
Questions and Answers Manly P. Hall	97
Wilson’s Blogmanac on Australian Radicals Pip Wilson	99
A Book Destined to Challenge Sociologists The New Time	103
Redbeard vs. The Fool-Killer James Larkin Pearson	105
Might is Right, Unite! Unite! Covington Hall	111
The Flames of Freedom “Cataline”	113
Free Spirits (Section)
Photograph of John Beverly Robinson	117
I Am, the Great I Am Woodby Siantific	118
Henry George Benjamin DeCasseres	120
Self-Maintainless Self: Female Henry Replogle	135
Self-Entertainless Self: Male Henry Replogle	140
The Dil Pickle vs. the K.K.K.  Chicago Tribune	145
Foemina in Liberty Foemina	146
Editor’s Preface to Anarchism James J. Martin	156
Der individualistische anarchist (bibliography) – Union of Egoists	166
Stand Alone: The First Fifty Union of Egoists	169
A Thanks to Patrons Union of Egoists	171
About the Editors Union of Egoists	172

 

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Der Geist | Issue 5 | Spring 2021
size: 6×9″ | pages: 206 | price: $15

Title / Author	Page
SECTION ONE
A Proofreader Looks Back The Andover Townsman	5
Steven T. Byington Versus The Human Cutworm Steven T. Byington	7
Photograph of Steven T. Byington Unknown	8
Steven T. Byington Biographical Note Steven T. Byington	9
Steven T. Byington Select Bibliography Trevor Blake	11
SECTION TWO
Review: Survival of the Fittest Thomas Common	17
The Silent Isle: Finding the Gravesite of Thomas Common Trevor Blake	24
Thomas Common Memorial Mary Common	25
Thomas Common Selected Bibliography Trevor Blake	32
SECTION THREE
Introduction to Bertha’s Reflections Kevin I. Slaughter	35
Reflections on Arthur Desmond Bertha McNamara	36
Illustration from The Worker The Worker (Wagga, NSW)	37
On John Ploughman Trevor Blake	38
John Ploughman’s Letter Boston Guardian	42
Introduction to The Brutalitarian Trevor Blake	44
The Brutalitarian: A Journal of Straight Talk Henry Salt	46
The Brutalitarian Vol. 1 No. 1 Unknown	53
The Brutalitarian: An Amazing New Periodical Rollin Lynde Hartt	54
Lion’s Paw Banned Theodore Schroder	58
Confessions of an Anarchist Kevin I. Slaughter	59
SECTION FOUR
Introduction to Rooum’s Eigenheit Trevor Blake	63
Eigenheit Max Stirner, translated by Donald Rooum	64
An Early Literary Portrait of Max Stirner Wilhelm Jordan	78
SECTION FIVE
Brainy Beauties Colin Brooks	81
Dora Marsden Private Places Unknown	83
Dora Marsden, Lover of Freedom Dell Floyd	84
SECTION SIX
Hobo Gives Ego Handout Daily News	87
Dan O’Brien, Social Supercrat Various Authors	88
Introduction to “A Rhapsody on a Reality” Trevor Blake	92
Victor Grayson, M.P.: A Rhapsody on a Reality Malfew Seklew	94
What Women Ought to Know Spencella Wilkesbarre	98
Stanley Simpoleon Says Seklew Stand-In Unknown	105
William Henry Powell and Malfew Seklew Trevor Blake and Christopher Draper	106
Malfew Seklew Poetic Beer Drinker The Express and Telegraph	110
Malfew Seklew, a Remarkable Character S. Fisher	112
Two from the Day Book The Day Book	114
SECTION SEVEN
Photograph of Georgia Replogle & Her Niece Unknown	117
Photograph of S. E. Parker Unknown	118
Denise Juin to S. E. Parker Denise Juin	119
Introduction to an Interview with S. E. Parker Pól O’Sullivan	121
Interview with S. E. Parker Tony Gibson	122
Sophie Leppel’s “Pig Eaters Challenge” Christopher Draper	140
Roseman on Labadie Herbert C. Roseman	144
Leedz Anarkyst: Greevz Fisher (1845–1931) Christopher Draper	145
The Truth about Nietzsche Holbrook Jackson	150
Index of Der Geist Union of Egoists	157
From the Library of… Union of Egoists	165
Index to The Lumberjack / Voice of the People Union of Egoists	166
A Thank-You to Patrons Unknown	203
Select Titles Available… Unknown	204
About the Editors Unknown	206

 

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Title / Author	Page
SECTION 1
Max Stirner’s Anarchist Gospel Current Literature	9
A Dutch Review of Stirner’s Work Gustaff Vermeersch	18
Anarchist Black Dragon John Bosch and Carl Harp	21
Max Stirner vs. Wahrheit-Sucher Wahrheit-Sucher	23
“Celine Adele Marillier” Edmond-Francois Aman-Jean	25
Pity and the Future V. Taubman-Goldie	26
Max Stirner and the Grisette Emma Goldman	27
Steven T. Byington’s Triple Score Trevor Blake	28
SECTION 2
On “Bernard’s Tour” Malfew Seklew	31
Minister Mocks Malfew Walter Higgins	34
Stern Critique of Christian Socialist Malfew Seklew	37
Seklew Asks: Nietzsche to Blame? R. Spencella McGean	39
Social Aristocrat Socialist Secretary David Nicholls	41
A Freak Among Reformers The Clarion	43
No Guide for Anybody The Sunday Referee	44
Proletarians in Purgatory Justice	45
No Justice for Malfew Seklew Justice	46
“We’re All More or Less Nutty” The Kansas City Times	47
Not Seeking Work Malfew Seklew	48
Seklew Scolds Simpoleons… Malfew Seklew	49
No Detail Too Small! Trevor Blake	50
SECTION 3
Redbeard in Canada Kevin I. Slaughter	53
Desmond Selling George Kevin I. Slaughter	67
Give the New Hand a Show! Kevin I. Slaughter	75
A.D. in the O.E.D. Kevin I. Slaughter	81
Introduction to “A Bogus Book” Trevor Blake & Kevin I. Slaughter	83
A Bogus Book The Tocsin	84
Australian Socialist Drinking Club Kevin I. Slaughter	86
Redbeard’s Rough Stuff C.F. Hunt	88
“We Understand the Redbeard Philosophy” James Rowan	90
Voima On Oikeus Covington Hall	92
No Detail Too Small! Trevor Blake	94
SECTION 4
Dora Marsden for the Prosecution Manchester Evening News	97
The Freewomen of New York The Forum	99
Dora Marsden, unser aller Mutter Trevor Blake	101
Dora Marsden Ephemera Various	102
A Rare Portrait Votes for Women	105
A Rare Portrait The Huddersfield Daily Examiner	106
SECTION 5
Emmeline Pankhurst Benjamin DeCasseres	109
Pyrrhonism and Acatalepsy Benjamin DeCasseres	112
Balzac Benjamin DeCasseres	114
The Borrowed Mirror Benjamin DeCasseres	116
SECTION 6
Nietzsche and a Braille Stirner for Hellen Keller Benjamin R. Tucker	119
“Will Nietzsche Come Into Vogue…” Thomas Common	121
The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche Holbrook Jackson	129
Alexander Tille Reads Egoism Harold Hiller	133
SECTION 7
A Sketch of Martucci Stephen Marletta	137
An Excerpt from The Red Sect Enzo Martucci	141
Martucci on Stirner Enzo Martucci	147
SECTION 8
Peter Lamborn Wilson Has Passed Trevor Blake & Kevin I. Slaughter	162
Hakim Bey: Real and Unreal Mark Aelred Sullivan	163
Vox Populi Vox Dei Bonar Thompson	164
Thompson at Rudolf Steiner Hall Unknown	167
Speakers’ Corner Anthology Peace News	168
Introducing “Among the Anarchists” Kevin I. Slaughter	170
Among the Anarchists John Davidson	171
The True Comarade E. Armand	177
Is This What You Call “Living?” E. Armand	178
The Thirteenth Paragraph E. Armand	180
Greeves Fisher, A Sketch Christopher Draper	185
Dominance vs. Egoism Peter McAlpine	191
More Individualism Mark A. Sullivan	194
Individualism and Property Mildred J. Loomis	196
Why I am a Right-Wing Anarchist Robert Anton Wilson	198
Opening and Closing the Dil Pickle Trevor Blake	200
Christmas a Joke! Henry M. Tichenor	201
“I” a poem Enrique Magon	202
“I GO” a poem Jack Jones	203
A Letter to the Editors of Freedom Sidney E. Parker	204
Enrico Arrigoni Bibliography Union of Egoists	206
Photo of Benjamin R. Tucker Dorlys	211
About the Editors Unknown	212