All new typesetting of the witty, barbed and insightful egoistic maxims of Nicolas Chamfort. Featuring an afterword by Friedrich Nietzsche. 18th issue of the egoist journal “Stand Alone”. The Cynic’s Breviary by Nicolas Chamfort preface by William G. Hutchison afterword by Friedrich Nietzsche 5.5″ x 8.5″, Saddle-stitched Limited to 66 copies. Order: Underworld Amusements “Nature […]
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 […]
Excerpt from a letter circa July 1932, from Warren Starr Van Valkenburgh (New York) to Emma Goldman (St. Tropez). I am enclosing the first issue of a boot-leg publication called the Clarion. L. J. Shapiro is a contractor, sympathizer but not an anarchist. He made available sufficient funds for the first three issues. Archie Turner […]
I first saw the title in passing in a listing of titles available from the publishers of The Eagle and The Serpent (1898), I was to learn later that Malfew Seklew actually distributed “Liberty Luminants” according to a notice in “The Reformers Yearbook” of 1903. The address given at the time was 213 Grimesthorpe Road, Sheffield. […]
We have only a partial knowledge of the contents of the egoist influenced journal The Clarion, but sought out what we could because two of our main Union Members are featured: Malfew Seklew and Benjamin DeCasseres. Reproduced below is one of the known Seklew pieces. THE EGO By MALFEW SEKLEW as published in The […]
One of the titles included in our list of Journals is The Clarion (1932). I was unfamiliar with it (and most of the titles we discovered!), but thanks to the Labadie Collection, we have a sampling of the contents from a few issues. We will be taking this information and more to create a dedicated […]
Jonathan Rée wrote an article titled “Antichrist” for The New Humanist in November 2010. In it is one of the few modern references to The Eagle and the Serpent (1898) and some of our egoists, such as John Basil Barnhill. The young Nietzcheans did not hesitate to identify Nietzsche himself with the Übermensch – or […]
From “The Phoenix Nest,” a column by William Rose Benet appearing in the April 26 1947 edition of The Saturday Review (page 36)… Mark Twain relates in one of his stories, the furore up in Heaven when an obscure tailor, Billings by name, from somewhere in Tennessee, arrives in the Celestial realm. Shakespeare is proud […]
