Max Stirner

Tags: Philosopher.

Johann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25 1806 – June 26 1856) better known as Max Stirner was a German philosopher. He is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism existentialism communism postmodernism and anarchism especially of individualist anarchism. Stirner’s main work is The Ego and Its Own also known as The Ego and His Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in German which translates literally as The Unique One and His Property).

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birth date

1806-10-25

birth place

Kingdom of Bavaria, Bayreuth

death date

1856-06-26

death place

Kingdom of Prussia

era

19th-century philosophy

influenced

Albert Camus, Emma Goldman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Robert Anton Wilson, Rudolf Steiner, Carl Schmitt, Herbert Read, John Henry Mackay, Adolf Brand, Steven T. Byington, Renzo Novatore, Saul Newman, Bob Black, Friedrich Engels, Ernst Jünger, Enrico Arrigoni, Miguel Giménez Igualada, Wilhelm Reich, Émile Armand, Gustav Landauer, Benjamin Tucker, Wolfi Landstreicher

influenced by

Adam Smith, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jean-Baptiste Say, Bruno Bauer, Ludwig Feuerbach

main interest

Ethics, Ontology, Politics, Property, Value theory

notableIdea

Egoist anarchism

philosophicalSchool

Individualism