We delve into the first half of The Ego and His Own, titled “Man.” There are some quotes from Stirner’s contemporaries Feuerbach and Bauer, and then Chapter One, titled “A Human Life,” begins. Every other week I will release a podcast containing a new recording. I challenge you to listen with a critical ear. Do I mispronounce? […]
Just a bit of ephemera I thought was quite interesting, and I’m sure some of you reading may think so as well. Below is a cropped photo of the letterhead John Basil Barnhill, aka John Erwin McCall had for his (last?) journal Humanity First (1919). Readers will probably first know Barnhill as the publisher of […]
Protagoras, Nietzsche, Stirner: Expositors of Egoism by Benedict Lachmann translated by Edward Mornin foreword by Kevin I. Slaughter appendix by Trevor Blake Stand Alone SA1090 Available at Amazon.com or Barnes & Nobles or Underworld Amusements Finally, the 1985 translation of Benedict Lachmann’s 1914 work on Egoism has been published, after being lost for 33 years. […]
This is the short preamble to The Ego and His Own titled “All things are Nothing to Me,” released as an independent episode. All Ego episodes will solely contain sections from the book, without commentary. You may notice that we skipped past the front material and directly into the book. The plan is to record the introduction […]
“When one thoroughly knows and deeply examines the notion of individuality and the consequences that derive from the principle that is its basis, meaning that every man is not only related to the world in a particular way, but also to every object in the world and to every idea that these objects awaken, one […]
Lecture to the Ferrer Colony by John William Lloyd In reading this paper to you, members of the Ferrer Colony, I wish to say that I claim neither inspiration nor infallibility. I do not pretend to be an expert in anything. I am simply a friend and a comrade who has a few suggestions to […]
Alphonse Gallaud–the future Zo d’Axa–was born on May 24, 1864 in Paris to a well-to-do family, his father being a municipal engineer in the city. After completing his studies in Chaptal College, he entered Saint-Cyr’s military academy. He enlisted in a grenadier cavalry regiment and departed with infantrymen to Africa. But the adventure wasn’t as […]
“The Man Born Blind” Ambrose Bierce A man born blind received his sight By a painful operation; And these are things he saw in the light Of an infant observation. He saw a merchant, good and wise. And greatly, too, respected, Who looked, to those imperfect eyes, Like a swindler undetected. He saw a patriot […]
26th issue of the egoist journal “Stand Alone”. Liberty Tables of Content by John Zube 80 pages, 8.5″ x 11″, coil bound Limited to 10 copies. Available from Underworld Amusements Nearly 40 years ago panarchy advocate John Zube put every of copy of Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty journal on microfiche as part of his Peace Plans project, and made them […]
The newest issue of Der Geist, the journal of historical Egoism, is here. Rare and unpublished works from the first century of egoism-the philosophy of Max Stirner. Unique translations of Stirner into English; significant archives of egoism rescued from the ash heap of history; blood and thunder from Friedrich Nietzsche complimented by the laughing philosophy of […]
