Placing Stirner among Nordau’s “Degenerates” due to his “might is right” philosophy…


1845-1945, Max Stirner, Ragnar Redbeard

  Schmidt (Stirner) and his Egoistic Anarchism I cannot remember whether Max Nordau has included Schmidt among the imaginative monstrosities of his “Degeneration;” but if ever a person earnt an epitaph from that atrabilious Philistine, that person was Johann Kaspar Schmidt, pseudonymously known as Max Stirner. Stirner—I shall henceforth call him Stirner—was the expounder of […]

May 24, 2019

Amongst Rebels, Artists, and Modernists


Benjamin DeCasseres, Max Stirner

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 […]

November 20, 2017