The following poems were originally published in So sang an “outsider” in 1925. They were translated by “J.” in 2004. The dream I dream of a country without suffering where no one groans under the weight of solitude, and hearts dared to hope, with no layers of darkness blackening their desires. A country without tears and […]
Bondwomen The Freewoman: No. 1, Vol. 1, November 23, 1911. by Dora Marsden Bondwomen are distinguished from Freewomen by a spiritual distinction. Bondwomen are the women who are not spiritual entities – who are not individuals. They are complements merely. By habit of thought, by form of activity, and largely by preference, they round off […]
Egoism: The First Two Volumes 1890-1892 A review by Chip Smith Despite the marginal influence of Max Stirner, the intellectual and cultural milieu of late 19th century egoism has received little scholarly attention to date. This is a shame because the early egoists exposited a unique and radical vision of human autonomy — peppered with anarchist, […]
To the Editor of Liberty: I think there is no controversy between Mr. J. Wm. Lloyd and myself, though he regards “all acts as Egoistic,” while I use the term Egoism, like Stirner, for acts of normal self-possession and self-expression, excluding blind crazes, fanaticism, the influence of fixed ideas, hypnotism dominating the subject and rendering […]
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 […]
A review of the first egoist book in America, from a spiritualist, new age journal titled NOW: A Journal of Affirmation, Vol. VI. No. 7, of March 1906. findacenter.com defines “New Thought” as “…a spiritual path or movement formed primarily by Suffragettes. Abolitionists and Free Thinkers guided by Core Concepts which include: co-creation, human rights and scientific […]
We were able to produce at least one post a week, on average, last year. Some of the material made it into the first issue of Der Geist (2017) and others will make it into the next. Some will only live on as blog posts and some may even be deleted:
In his book Der Einzige…, Max Stirner used Goethe’s poem “Vanitas!” as inspirtation to begin the entire book. The title of the preamble is “Ich hab’ Mein’ Sach’ auf Nichts gestellt”, which is the first line of Geothe’s poem. There have only been a small number of English translations of the preamble. H.J. Schirmer, in his […]
