Georgia Replogle, publisher of the journal Egoism (1890) with her husband Henry, sent the following letter to Max Heinrich Hermann Reinhardt Nettlau (1865-1944) while he was living in London on February 4th, 1897. It was during this time that Nettlau was meeting William Morris, Errico Malatesta and Peter Kropotkin. The letter is care of the “Max Nettlau Papers“, part of the […]
As a bibliophile who publishes books on egoism and is editor-in-chief of UnionOfEgoists.com, it should be apparent I look for and have an interest in new egoist books/booklets/etc. It was on ebay I came across the small anarchist project LCU Distro and specifically their book SAUERKRAUT for the EGO: Stirner’s Critics and Other Egoist Essays. […]
The Ferrer School, established in 1911, became an important focus of cultural and social ferment in the years preceding the First World War. In New York City this was a period of extraordinary intellectual brilliance, in which many of the seminal ideas of the twentieth-century politics and art were being developed. Visitors to the Center […]
Der Geist/Union Of Egoists would like some reviews of the various books and booklets dealing with the themes or history of egoism and individualist anarchism. If you were interested in writing a few words about any of the following titles, positive or critical, for possible publication in Der Geist, the journal or on the blog. […]
Aside from where I stand at any given moment, the centrum mundi of egoism in North America is the Dill Pickle Club of Chicago Illinois. Here are excerpts from the Chicago Tribune on the rising and falling fortunes of the building where Sirfessor Malfew Seklew and Ragnar Redbeard once held court. Jack Jones was the […]
The Optimist’s Ego I do not feel me travelling these rails, Elbowing the herd; For have I not been chosen to be I? Some great wise power pruned so well Through the bloom of teeming life That I am pleased with this I that I am. It picked me a keen gray firey glance To […]
The following was published in Georgia and Henry Replogle’s journal Egoism (1890). Volume 4, number 1 was published in September, 1897. Henry wrote a similar article for “Males” in the previous issue, previously published on this blog. Self-Maintainless Self—Female. In the way of strong weaknesses, next to man’s overpowering lonesomeness is woman’s dread of responsibility. So […]
Readers should know that John Henry Mackay single-handedly saved Max Stirner from the dustbins of history, and part of that was writing the only book-length biography of Stirner titled Max Stirner: sein Leben und sein Werk (1898, 1910, 1914). It was Hubert Kennedy who, in 2005, published the first and only translation of that biography as Max Stirner: […]
