Der Geist issue 4 is now available! That creates a total of 724 pages of egoism from 1845 to 1945, with “lost” works reprinted, new translations every issue, rare photos and images, and new research and writing.

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In this issue, a previously undiscovered speech by Ragnar Redbeard; original translations of Max Stirner and Malfew Seklew; rare reproductions from Dora Marsden and Friedrich Nietzsche; individualists and eccentrics versus the KKK; and more.

DER GEIST, The Journal of Egoism from 1845 – 1945
ISSUE 4
Spring 2021
Paperback, 172 pages, fifteen dollars
ISBN 978-1944651-21-3
ISSN 2639-5339

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The Walford-Parker Exchange, originally published in Ideological Commentary, is gathered here for the first time with a new introduction. In one corner we have George Walford (1919 – 1994) representing “Systematic ideology,” and in another corner Sidney E. Parker (1929 – 2012) representing “Stirnerite egoism.” Is “egoism” contradictory nonsense, or a self-evident description of the world? See these two articulate authors at odds in a friendly, informative exchange.

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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).  The inaugural issue includes an exclusive biography of Dora Marsden, lost essays by and about Malfew Seklew, and a newly discovered first photograph of Ragnar Redbeard.

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.

DER GEIST, The Journal of Egoism from 1845 – 1945
VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1
WINTER 2017 (Published 25 October 2017)

Paperback, 160 pages, fifteen dollars
ISBN 978-1-944651-08-5

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

I am enclosing the first issue of a boot-leg publication called the Clarion. L. J. Shapiro is a contractor, sympathizer but not an anarchist. He made available sufficient funds for the first three issues. Archie Turner was formerly with Havel on [illegible] Gordin, you know. Amedy Chappeau is a French comrade, an individualist and always considered a dependable comrade. I understand he has merely lent his name to give the Clarion some reason to be. Malfew Seklew is a street fakir with a flair for alliterative sentences. He claims to have been a follower of Kropotkin’s for more than 30 years until he found out how much more he knew than Peter and what damn fools and underdeveloped organisms the anarchists are when he decided that nothing matters but the ego and that the greatest social system man has ever devised is the capitalist system which provides bread and luxuries for hordes too dumb to provide it for themselves. Therefore if 30 capitalists would quit business tomorrow, the whole working class would starve within the next week. He is something over seventy and draws an old age pension from the State of NY, which may have something to do with his defense of capitalism! Anyhow no one takes him seriously except A. Gordin and A. Turner. But he is one of the sponsors of the Clarion. As to its contents, they speak for themselves.

Union of Egoist Note: the letter immediately following this one is Emma Goldman’s statement of earnings from Living My Life, published by Alfred A. Knopf.