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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
April 1st, 2016 heralded in the beginning of UnionOfEgoists.com, and today (October 25th, 2017, the 211th birthday of Max Stirner) we announce its official journal: DER GEIST. Purchase from: Underworld Amusements Purchase from Amazon.com: US | MX | CA | UK | DE | FR | IT Library Edition, fifty dollars (please inquire) DER GEIST (Trevor Blake, editor) is an English-language journal for an international audience, publishing original scholarship […]
What follows is an essay by Sidney E. Parker that appeared in the anarchist journal The Vulture (1975), Vol.1 No.1, Summer 1975. TheVulture was published by Association Max Stirner du Kébec, a Canadian group that we know very little about. If you have any information on the group, please get in touch. This essay has also been […]
A review of The Unique and Its Property from the blog Thus Spoke Me, used here with permission. The author uses twitter as The Independent Ego. “I Have Based My Affair on Nothing” is the beginning and end quote of Max Stirner’s most famous book The Unique and Its Property (Most commonly referred to as The […]
J. William Lloyd (1857 – 1940) was an individualist anarchist poet and author. The following poem was published in Georgia and Henry Replogle’s Egoism (1890), Vol.4 No.1, published in September, 1897. Lloyd founded his magazine, The Free Comrade, which first ran from 1900 to 1902, which was edited by Clarence Lee Swartz. There he championed anarchism, […]
