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 […]
There are no photos of Max Stirner. It should be one of the first things you learn about him, because his likeness as rendered by Friedrich Engels many years later is the closest thing we have. All depictions of Stirner are based on that. Unfortunately people keep attributing photos of other people to Stirner. Benjamin Tucker, […]
Der Geist: The Journal of Egoism from 1845 to 1945 a review by Michael Moynihan, author of Lords of Chaos Available from Amazon.com or Underworld Amusements. “Old Mad Max is back with a vengeance! The first issue Der Geist is a tight cluster of time bombs, many of which have been quietly ticking away in forgotten corners for […]
14th issue of the egoist journal “Stand Alone”. The Walford-Parker Exchange by George Walford, Sidney E. Parker new introduction by Trevor Blake 36 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″, Saddle-stitched Limited to 66 copies. Order: Underworld Amusements The Walford-Parker Exchange, originally published in Ideological Commentary, is gathered here for the first time with a new introduction. In one […]
The Union of Egoists project tries to make a distinction between Egoism that is explicitly inspired or intellectually descended from Max Stirner, and things that are merely egoistic. There are many people who one could say were egoists, and wrote things that were perfectly egoistic, but we have to draw lines of delineation. One of […]
The other day we sent out the following tweet: The editors of https://t.co/rfHKlGlFzC have agreed to increase the focus on egoist authors & publishers of 1845 – 1945 by removing or reducing the focus of content related to other times.A blog post will be made discussing it once we're satisfied with restructuring. — Der Geist […]
A review of The Philosophy of Time from the blog Thus Spoke Me, used here with permission. The author uses twitter as The Independent Ego. What is Time? What does it mean to be on Time? Why is time so important? Many of such questions are given to the reader by Marsden for anyone to answer. […]
The following was published in Georgia and Henry Replogle’s journal Egoism (1890). Volume 4, number 1 was published in September, 1897. The “Selfish” Bauble. Outside of posited plumb-line Anarchism and its venereal corollaries, we get no paper in exchange that does not propose saving society by some political magic, except “Progressive Thought,” of Olathe, Kansas, an […]
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. […]
