Max Stirner

Max Stirner was one of the most important and seminal thinkers of the mid-nineteenth century. He exposed the religiosity behind secular humanism and rationalism, and the domination of the individual behind liberal modes of politics. This edited collection explores Stirner's radical and contemporary importance as a political theorist.

Introduction: Re-encountering Stirner's ghosts; S.Newman SECTION ONE - HISTORICAL CONTEXT A Solitary Life; D.Leopold The Mirror of Anarchy: the Egoism of John Henry Mackay and Dora Marsden; R.Kinna SECTION TWO - KEY WORKS The Multiplicity of Nothingness: A Contribution to a Non-reductionist Reading of Stirner; R.Balidissone The Philosophical Reactionaries. 'The Modern Sophists by Kuno Fischer'; translated and introduced by W.De Ridder SECTION THREE - THEMES AND DEBATES Max Stirner and Karl Marx: An Overlooked Contretemps; P.Thomas Max Stirner: The End of Philosophy and Political Subjectivity; W.De.Ridder SECTION FOUR - CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE Why Anarchists Need Stirner; K.Ferguson Stirner's Ethics of Voluntary Inservitude; S.Newman Bibliography Index

RICCARDO BALDISSONE Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University, Australia WIDUKIND DE RIDDER Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Social-Economic History at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium KATHY FERGUSON Professor in the Department of Political Science and Women's Studies Program, at the University of Hawai'I, USA RUTH KINNA Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at the University of Loughborough, UK DAVID LEOPOLD University Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, UK SAUL NEWMAN Reader in Political Theory at Goldsmiths University of London, UK PAUL THOMAS Professor of Political Science, specializing in political theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA