{"product_id":"max-stirners-egoism-and-nihilism-9781943687022","title":"Max Stirner's Egoism and Nihilism","description":"During the early 1970s a 'revival' took place of the philosophy of Max Stirner, born Johann Caspar Schmidt (1806-1856), whose book \u003ci\u003eDer Einzige und Sein Eigentum\u003c\/i\u003e has been called a 'revolutionary anarchist manual', a 'Banker's Bible', a 'structural model of petit-bourgeois self-consciousness' and other names since its appearance in 1844.The revival produced the most comprehensive study of Stirner in English to that date, R. W. K. Paterson's 1971 \u003ci\u003eThe Nihilistic Egoist: Max Stirner\u003c\/i\u003e. While Paterson undertook to review \u003ci\u003eDer Einzige\u003c\/i\u003e as substantive philosophical discourse, paradoxically, and theologically, he would conclude that Stirner was doing metaphysics, to the point of a solipsistic frivolity.This study examines the fascinating but ultimately unsuccessful, if not buffoonish, case against Stirner by Paterson. I conclude that we should rethink Stirner not as metaphysician but as social critic and educator, a \"root\", ground-level or primal thinker, more relevant today than ever. And that his ideas and principles are ready to be spread and put to work now in criticism, current events and art.In this revision my purpose is to de-trivialize Stirner, tweak the paradigm further and introduce new material, with a view to reviving Saint Max where he belongs - in the company of heretics such as Chamfort, Nietzsche, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, George Orwell, Joseph Heller and George Carlin, to name a few.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11594337\"\u003eLarry Alan Schiereck\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Underworld Amusements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943687022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1943687021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI026000\"\u003eCriticism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Underworld Amusements","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42662018580717,"sku":"9781943687022","price":8.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_bcd3ff7e-6809-4644-afb8-146a4943278a.jpg?v=1649376765","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/max-stirners-egoism-and-nihilism-9781943687022","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}