Der Geist is the name of an English language digital blog and print journal reprinting and commenting on a century of egoist writing, focusing on the 100 years between 1845 – 1945. The journal is edited by Trevor Blake and co-edited and designed by Kevin I. Slaughter.
While the blog features news items and features a wider range of subject matter and time periods, updates about the website, short form ephemera and other items of long-term or transient interest, the print edition is more narrow in focus. Some of the work of Der Geist blog and journal is digital-first, some print-first, some digital exclusive, some print exclusive. The blog will feature contemporary news items when it is appropriate, but the journal will strictly be focused on figures, events and ideas from 1845-1945.
Prospectus
DER GEIST (Trevor Blake, editor) is an English-language journal for an international audience, publishing original scholarship on the philosophy of egoism. DER GEIST emphasizes the first century of egoism in print (from the 1845 publication of Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum by Max Stirner to the end of 1945). DER GEIST is the permanent record of UnionOfEgoists.com, founded on 1 April 2016 by Kevin I. Slaughter and Trevor Blake. UnionOfEgoists.com has published hundreds of pages of rare historic egoist texts and will be publishing thousands more. DER GEIST is descriptive (about), not prescriptive (advocating), of egoism. Scholarly interest in the egoism of Stirner, Marsden, Redbeard, Seklew and their peers (including Benjamin DeCasseres) has a new and unique home in DER GEIST.
Masthead
Subtitle: The Journal of Egoism 1845-1945
Editors: Trevor Blake & Kevin I. Slaughter
Subjects: Egoism between 1845 – 1945.
Index of Issues
Der Geist | Issue 1 | Winter 2017
size: 6×9″ | pages: 160 | price: $15
| Introduction Trevor Blake | 2 |
| “I” Clarence Lee Swartz | 5 |
| A Brief Travelogue of Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum Kevin I. Slaughter |
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| An Ego Englished: Anglicizing Der Einzige Kevin I. Slaughter | 14 |
| I’ve Based My Cause ’Pon Nothing Max Stirner & H. J. Schirmer | 19 |
| Preface to Den Eneste Og Hans Ejendom Georg Brandes & Svein Olav Nyberg | 22 |
| Max Stirner Bibliography Addendum for 2017 Trevor Blake | 27 |
| Dora Marsden: Her Time, Her Life, Her Thoughts Trevor Blake | 42 |
| Dora Marsden and the Wrath of the Antis Trevor Blake | 60 |
| Vanoc II: The Strange Watchmaker Trevor Blake | 63 |
| Our Handbook: The Ego and Our Own Vanoc II | 68 |
| Self Love Maurice Cranston | 72 |
| Benjamin DeCasseres: A (Con)Founding Fortean Joshua Blu Buhs | 74 |
| Kept Benjamin DeCasseres | 89 |
| Max Stirner Benjamin DeCasseres | 91 |
| The Ego Malfew Seklew | 98 |
| Laughter Malfew Seklew | 99 |
| Gems of Thought Malfew Seklew | 101 |
| Unhatched Egos… Malfew Seklew | 103 |
| Malfew Seklew, Street Fakir Warren Van Valkenburgh | 107 |
| The Superites Admit They Are the Best Extant Malfew Seklew | 108 |
| Malfew Seklew: Horse, Traps, Gigs, Landaus and Cabs Trevor Blake | 109 |
| The Sleeping and Singing Sirfessor Trevor Blake | 110 |
| The Dill Pickle Club: A Bright Spot In a Somber Town Trevor Blake | 112 |
| Du-Dil-Duk Trevor Blake | 119 |
| American Address: V. F. Gordon Trevor Blake | 120 |
| Egoists in the News Trevor Blake | 121 |
| “‘Individualism’ in the Mid-Nineteenth Century” David Westling | 125 |
| Fight Club 1914 Trevor Blake | 127 |
| Is Shakespeare Dead? Mark Twain | 130 |
| The Altruist Corner Trevor Blake | 131 |
| Egoists on Democracy Trevor Blake | 139 |
| First Photograph of Ragnar Redbeard Trevor Blake | 147 |
| A Unique Conversation Kevin I. Slaughter & Trevor Blake | 150 |
Der Geist | Issue 2 | Winter 2018
size: 6×9″ | pages: 188 | price: $15
| Introduction Trevor Blake | 2 |
| Benjamin DeCasseres (Section) | 5 |
| Detroit Jewish Chronicle | 7 |
| Hate Everlasting Benjamin DeCasseres | 10 |
| Tales of a Psychometric Reporter: How I Interviewed Bacchus Benjamin DeCasseres | 12 |
| The Fatal Smile | 17 |
| Max Stirner (Section) | 19 |
| The Worker and the Government | 21 |
| What is Good? What is Evil? James Walker | 23 |
| Good Reading to Sharpen Mental Teeth | 24 |
| Vanitas William Flygare | 25 |
| Max Stirner Bibliography Addendum | 27 |
| L’Unique et sa propriété Max Ernst | 33 |
| The Unique Individual | 34 |
| I’ve Based My Affairs on Nothing Malcolm Green | 38 |
| Anthony Ludovici (Section) | 41 |
| Anthony M. Ludovici’s Egoism Kevin I. Slaughter | 43 |
| The Choice of a Mate Anthony M. Ludovici | 45 |
| Dora Marsden (Section) | 47 |
| Dora Marsden’s England Trevor Blake | 49 |
| Casandra and the War | 51 |
| To the Great Name Trevor Blake | 52 |
| Egoist Advertisement in The Little Review | 57 |
| Anend the Decalogue | 58 |
| …the Power of Thought N.C. Chritcher | 65 |
| Malfew Seklew (Section) | 67 |
| The Rejection of Christianity Malfew Seklew | 69 |
| Mr. F. Wilkesbarre, Coster | 71 |
| Surfessor of Egoism, Introduction Trevor Blake | 74 |
| MS – Surfessor of Egoism | 76 |
| A New Way to Earn a Living | 79 |
| … from the Labor Annual | 82 |
| Perfumed Pigs | 83 |
| Stars in the Talking Marathon | 84 |
| Victor Grayson M.P. – Introduction Trevor Blake | 86 |
| Victor Grayson M.P. / A Rhapsody | 89 |
| Henry and Georgia Replogle & Egoism (1890) (Section) | 93 |
| Egoism’s Purpose and Whyfore | 95 |
| Minus the Communism | 98 |
| The “Selfish” Bauble | 101 |
| J. Wm. Lloyd (Section) | 103 |
| Personally Acquainted | 105 |
| Anarchist Socialism | 106 |
| Dill Pickle Club Spencella Wilkesbarre(Section) | 113 |
| Up an Alley to a Wild Place John Nichols Beffel | 115 |
| Dill Pickle Club Patricia Bronte | 116 |
| Angels of the Dill Pickle Club Trevor Blake | 122 |
| The Optimist’s Ego Andrea Proudfoot | 125 |
| The Eagle and The Serpent (1898) (Section) | 127 |
| A Volcano Has Burst Forth in England C. L. Swartz | 129 |
| A Difference of Words Only Tak Kak | 130 |
| A Dream of Beyond Volcano | 131 |
| A Unanimous Conviction Volcano | 133 |
| Advertisement from the Labor Annual | 134 |
| Marginalia | 135 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche (Section) | 137 |
| Nietzsche William Gordak | 139 |
| Nietzsche In T.P.’s Weekly | 140 |
| Free Spirits (Section) | 147 |
| The Sidney E. Parker Archives Kevin I. Slaughter | 149 |
| Three Poems Émile Armand | 166 |
| Laurance Labadie and His Critics Herbert Roseman | 169 |
| The Altruist Corner | 171 |
| From the Library Kevin I. Slaughter | 180 |
| Photo of George Schumm | 185 |
| Patreon Thanks | 186 |
| Errata | 187 |
| About the Editors | 188 |
Der Geist | Issue 3 | Winter 2018
size: 6×9″ | pages: 188 | price: $15
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Der Geist | Issue 4 | Winter 2018
size: 6×9″ | pages: 188 | price: $15
| Introduction Trevor Blake | 2 |
| Max Stirner / The Ego and His Own (Section) | |
| Sacco and Vanzetti and Stirner The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti | 7 |
| John Henry Mackay’s Appreciation of Stirner Thomas Common (trans.) | 9 |
| Biographisches über den Übersetzer Max Stirner | 14 |
| Byington to Schumm on Translating Einzige Steven Byington | 16 |
| The Prehistory of The Ego Clarence Swartz, Benjamin Tucker | 18 |
| Max Stirner James Huneker | 22 |
| The Individualist Anarchist and the Dictator Raoul Hausmann | 28 |
| Das Unnwahre Prinzip Unserer Erziehung Verlag für freies Geistesleben | 31 |
| L’Unique et sa Propriété Reviewed Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale | 32 |
| Dora Marsden (Section) | |
| Dora Marsden Portrait The American Review of Reviews | 37 |
| Dora Marsden, Feminism’s New Prophetess The American Review of Reviews | 38 |
| Sky-scapes and Goodwill Dora Marsden | 43 |
| Malfew Seklew (Section) | |
| Le Sirfesseur en France Malfew Seklew | 53 |
| Malfew Seklew, No Guide for Anybody The Sunday Referee | 55 |
| A Freak Among Reformers Malfew Seklew | 56 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche (Section) | |
| The New Sophist, Frederick Nietsche John Davidson | 59 |
| Nietzsche on Egoism Friedrich Nietzsche, George Schumm | 66 |
| Ragnar Redbeard (Section) | |
| “The Philosophy Of Power,” A Previously Unknown Speech By Ragnar Redbeard Chicago Commons | 71 |
| Illustrations and Photographs of Ragnar Redbeard and His Audience | 86 |
| On Mr. Smith and His Shocking Speech Trevor Blake | 89 |
| The Legend of Mammon Castle Henry Lawson | 93 |
| Marginalia The New Age | 95 |
| Questions and Answers Manly P. Hall | 97 |
| Wilson’s Blogmanac on Australian Radicals Pip Wilson | 99 |
| A Book Destined to Challenge Sociologists The New Time | 103 |
| Redbeard vs. The Fool-Killer James Larkin Pearson | 105 |
| Might is Right, Unite! Unite! Covington Hall | 111 |
| The Flames of Freedom “Cataline” | 113 |
| Free Spirits (Section) | |
| Photograph of John Beverly Robinson | 117 |
| I Am, the Great I Am Woodby Siantific | 118 |
| Henry George Benjamin DeCasseres | 120 |
| Self-Maintainless Self: Female Henry Replogle | 135 |
| Self-Entertainless Self: Male Henry Replogle | 140 |
| The Dil Pickle vs. the K.K.K. Chicago Tribune | 145 |
| Foemina in Liberty Foemina | 146 |
| Editor’s Preface to Anarchism James J. Martin | 156 |
| Der individualistische anarchist (bibliography) – Union of Egoists | 166 |
| Stand Alone: The First Fifty Union of Egoists | 169 |
| A Thanks to Patrons Union of Egoists | 171 |
| About the Editors Union of Egoists | 172 |
Der Geist | Issue 5 | Spring 2021
size: 6×9″ | pages: 206 | price: $15
| Introduction Trevor Blake | 2 |
| Stephen T. Byington (Section) | 3 |
| A Proofreader Looks Back The Andover Townsman | 5 |
| Steven T. Byington Versus The Human Cutworm Steven T. Byington | 7 |
| Photograph of Steven T. Byington | 8 |
| Steven T. Byington Biographical Note Steven T. Byington | 9 |
| Steven T. Byington Select Bibliography Trevor Blake | 11 |
| Thomas Common (Section) | 15 |
| Thomas Common: Review, Survival of the Fittest Thomas Common | 17 |
| The Silent Isle: Finding the Gravesite of… Trevor Blake | 24 |
| Thomas Common Memorial Mary Common | 25 |
| Thomas Common Selected Bibliography Trevor Blake | 32 |
| Ragnar Redbeard (Section) | 33 |
| Introduction to Bertha’s Reflections Kevin I. Slaughter | 35 |
| Reflections on Arthur Desmond Bertha McNamara | 36 |
| Illustration from The Worker The Worker (Wagga, NSW) | 37 |
| On John Ploughman Trevor Blake | 38 |
| John Ploughman’s Letter Boston Guardian | 42 |
| Introduction to The Brutalitarian Trevor Blake | 44 |
| The Brutalitarian: A Journal… Henry Salt | 46 |
| The Brutalitarian Vol. 1 No. 1 | 53 |
| The Brutalitarian: An Amazing New Periodical… Rollin Lynde Hartt | 54 |
| Lion’s Paw Banned Theodore Schroder | 58 |
| Confessions of an Anarchist Kevin I. Slaughter | 59 |
| Max Stirner/The Ego and His Own (Section) | 61 |
| Introduction to Rooum’s Eigenheit Trevor Blake | 63 |
| Eigenheit Max Stirner, translated by Donald Rooum | 64 |
| An Early Literary Portrait of Max Stirner Wilhelm Jordan | 78 |
| Dora Marsden (Section) | 79 |
| Brainy Beauties Colin Brooks | 81 |
| Dora Marsden Private Places | 83 |
| Dora Marsden, Lover of Freedom Dell Floyd | 84 |
| Malfew Seklew (Section) | 85 |
| Hobo Gives Ego Handout Daily News | 87 |
| Dan O’Brien, Social Supercrat… Various Authors 1928-1950 | 88 |
| Introduction to “A Rhapsody on a Reality” Trevor Blake | 92 |
| Victor Grayson, M.P.: A Rhapsody on a Reality Malfew Seklew | 94 |
| What Women Ought to Know… Spencella Wilkesbarre | 98 |
| Stanley Simpoleon Says Seklew Stand-In | 105 |
| William Henry Powell and Malfew Seklew Trevor Blake and Christopher Draper | 106 |
| Malfew Seklew Poetic Beer Drinker The Express and Telegraph | 110 |
| Malfew Seklew, a Remarkable Character S. Fisher | 112 |
| Two from the Day Book The Day Book | 114 |
| Free Spirits (Section) | 115 |
| Photograph of Georgia Replogle & a Niece | 117 |
| Photograph of S. E. Parker | 118 |
| Denise Juin to S. E. Parker Denise Juin | 119 |
| Introduction to an Interview with S. E. Parker Pól O’Sullivan | 121 |
| Interview with S. E. Parker Tony Gibson | 122 |
| Sophie Lepel’s “Pig Eaters Challenge” Christopher Draper | 140 |
| Roseman on Labadie Herbert C. Roseman | 144 |
| Leedz Anarkyst: Greevz Fisher (1845-1931) Christopher Draper | 145 |
| The Truth about Nietzsche Holbrook Jackson | 150 |
| Index of Der Geist | 157 |
| From the Library of Union of Egoists | 165 |
| Index to The Lumberjack / Voice of the People | 166 |
| A Thank-You to Patrons | 203 |
| Select Titles Available… | 204 |
| About the Editors | 206 |