Der Geist issue 5 is now available! That creates a total of 930 pages of egoism from 1845 to 1945, with “lost” works reprinted, new or lost translations in every issue, rare photos and images, and new research and writing. Available from: Underworld Amusements | Amazon.com | Amazon.UK | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org DER GEIST issue five features the first publication of original […]
The Union of Egoists website went live early 2016 but officially announced April 1st of that year. The entire chat of February 2nd, 2016 between Trevor Blake and myself that crystalized the idea was printed at the end of Der Geist Issue 1, and titled “A Unique Conversation”, published in the following year. Der Geist […]
The God that Failed is a 1949 collection of essays by men and women familiar with and thereby disenchanted with socialism. While an egoist might prefer to consider individuals as individuals, moment by moment, a socialist will instead visit praise and condemnation on groups based on group considerations. Here, let me try that on for […]
The New Age No. 671 New Series. Vol.1. No.12 Thursday, July 18, 1907, P.188 MARGINALIA. Now that Nietzsche has entered the sphere of general discussion it is natural that publishers should find a growing demand for works dealing with the philosophy of Egoism, and Mr. Fifield is doing a service by issuing a translation of […]
My property is not a thing, since this has an existence independent of me; only my might is my own. Not this tree, but my might or control over it, is what is mine. Now, how is this might perversely expressed? They say I have a right to this tree, or it is my rightful […]
Schmidt (Stirner) and his Egoistic Anarchism I cannot remember whether Max Nordau has included Schmidt among the imaginative monstrosities of his “Degeneration;” but if ever a person earnt an epitaph from that atrabilious Philistine, that person was Johann Kaspar Schmidt, pseudonymously known as Max Stirner. Stirner—I shall henceforth call him Stirner—was the expounder of […]
Reviews. The Unique Individual. The Ego and His Own. Max Stirner. Trans. by S T. Byington. (A. C. Fifeld. 6s. 6d. net.) In the absence of a complete English translation of the work of Nietzsche (for which, by the way, somebody or other deserves to be shot), we may be grateful for this translation […]
One of the greatest archivists of the Individualist Anarchist and Egoist tradition is James J. Martin, who, beginning with his book Men Against the State, and continuing with his Libertarian Broadsides booklets, and the books he published with the Libertarian Book Club of New York was instrumental in creating a revived an interest in writers […]
The following excerpt is from Liberty and the Great Libertarians: an Anthology on Liberty, a Hand-book of Freedom by Charles T. Sprading. The book itself is a collection of writings by thinkers including Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, William Godwin, Wilhelm von Humboldt, John Stuart Mill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Josiah Warren, Max Stirner, Henry […]
This letter to the editor was printed in The Sun, Thursday, November 4, 1909. We have not uncovered the letter he is responding to. THE SOCIALISTS. A Characterization of Them by One Who Has No Propaganda to Offer. To the Editor of The Sun—Sir: In Mr. Ghent’s admirable exposition of myself in a letter to The […]
