Featured here are Authors who wrote about egoism. Authors are exclusive to the years 1845 – 1945, Archivists come after. UnionOfEgoists.com will provide capsule biographies and bibliographies for each of our honored guests. In time, we  add images, quotes and criticism and other additional details. Return here often to see our growth! To be added: […]

Here is the second text of André Arru on Stirner, written in 1988 with the title “Fifty Years After”; He was subsequently published and complemented by the first (“Unique and his property of Max Stirner” by René Saulère), by the Libertaire (Le Havre) on six numbers between June 1988 and February 1989, and then in […]

HEGEL AND STIRNER: THESIS AND ANTITHESIS LAWRENCE S. STEPELEVICH The recent profusion of studies directed to uncovering the “Young Marx” has also provoked some renewed interest in his contemporary, Johann Caspar Schmidt (1806-1856), better known as Max Stirner. With a few exceptions, the most important being William Brazill’s The Young Hegelians, Stirner has been retained in his […]

THE REVIVAL OF MAX STIRNER BY LAWRENCE S. STEPELEVICH In November 1844, Engels wrote his second letter to Marx. 1 He reported first on a visit to Moses Hess in Cologne, and then went on to note that Hess had given him a press copy of a new book by Max Stirner, Der Einzige und Sein Eigenthum. 2 Johann Caspar […]

Published by Max Stirner Archiv Leipzig Prospectus Coming soon… Masthead Subtitle: Mir geht nichts über Mich! − Ich hab’ Mein’ Sach’ auf Nichts gestellt! Editors: Kurt W. Fleming Contributors: Subjects: Index of Issues 1998, Heft 1 Johann Caspar Schmidt, Curriculum vitae Rolf Engert, Bildnis – Biographische Skizze Rolf Engert, Egoismus, d. h. Ichheit Rolf Engert, Die […]

Stirner and Marx by Alexander Green Max Stirner: a historiographical sketch The impact of Max Stirner’s The Ego and Its Own (1844)1) The Ego and Its Own (Leipzig, 1845). This work appeared in December of 1844, and press copies were available even earlier, as Moses Hess had read and forwarded his copy to Fredrich Engels no […]

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own Ego ? That is practically the question put by Max Stirner in his once celebrated, forgotten and now resuscitated book, The Ego and His Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum). Some one has called man a metaphysical animal; he […]

Prospectus Stand Alone, a mixed-medium journal spearheaded by the Union of Egoists and edited by Kevin I. Slaughter, serves as a dynamic platform for exploring Egoism and the individuals who embody its principles. Launched in 2016 with issue SA1000, the series spans an eclectic array of formats—pamphlets, full-length books, podcasts, and even unique items like […]

Number 14 1991 STIRNER AND NIETZSCHE NOTES ON STIRNER AND NIETZSCHE S. E. Parker During the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of this there was a great awakening of interest in the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche. At the same time there began an assiduous search for his precursors. The philosopher […]

THE EGOIST (formerly EGO) No 9 1987 Thirty Five Pence CONTROVERSY: More On Archists, Anarchists And Egoists… Comments From An Anarchist Fritz R. Ward I was not overly impressed with your article “Archists, Anarchists and Egoists” in the last issue of The Egoist. In using Clark’s definition of anarchism, which I think applies only to […]