Egoism | 2017 Review | Reason Magazine


1845-1945, Egoism, Reviews, Stand Alone

The most famous individualist anarchist journal of 19th century America was Liberty, edited by the fiery polemicist Benjamin Tucker. But Liberty wasn’t the movement’s only periodical, and anyone interested in that period of libertarian history should welcome any chance to examine the outlets edited by figures with different sensibilities. So it’s good to see Georgia and Henry Replogle’s […]

February 16, 2018

SA1055 | Max Stirner’s Egoism and Nihilism | Larry Alan Schiereck


1946-Today, Max Stirner, Stand Alone

16th issue of the egoist journal “Stand Alone”. Max Stirner’s Egoism and Nihilism by Larry Alan Schiereck 72 pages, 6″ x 9″, Perfect bound Order: Amazon.com, Underworld Amusements During the early 1970s a “revival” took place of the philosophy of Max Stirner, born Johann Caspar Schmidt (1806-1856), whose book Der Einzige und Sein Eigentum has been called […]

February 5, 2018

Bondwoman by Dora Marsden


1845-1945, Dora Marsden, Freewoman

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 […]

January 24, 2018

“The American transcendentalists seem like pantywaists by comparison…” | 2017 Review | Chip Smith


1845-1945, 1946-Today, Book, Egoism, James L. Walker, Kevin I. Slaughter, Max Stirner, Reviews

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, […]

January 19, 2018

“Old Mad Max is back with a vengeance!” | 2017 Review | Michael Moynihan


Benjamin DeCasseres, Book, Clarence Lee Swartz, Der Geist, Dora Marsden, James L. Walker, John Basil Barnhill, Kevin I. Slaughter, Malfew Seklew, Max Stirner, Ragnar Redbeard, Reviews, Steven T. Byington, Trevor Blake

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 […]

December 22, 2017

SA1035 | The Walford-Parker Exchange


1946-Today, Sidney E. Parker, Stand Alone, Trevor Blake

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 […]

December 21, 2017

“The ‘Selfish’ Bauble” by Henry P. Replogle


Egoism

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 […]

December 4, 2017

Georgia Replogle’s letter to Max Nettlau


1845-1945, Egoism

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 […]

November 27, 2017

“Self-Maintainless Self—Female” by Henry Replogle


1845-1945, Egoism

The following was published in Georgia and Henry Replogle’s journal Egoism (1890). Volume 4, number 1 was published in September, 1897. Henry wrote a similar article for “Males” in the previous issue, previously published on this blog. Self-Maintainless Self—Female. In the way of strong weaknesses, next to man’s overpowering lonesomeness is woman’s dread of responsibility. So […]

November 6, 2017