Egoist anarchism or anarcho-egoism, often shortened to egoism, is a school of anarchist thought that originated in the philosophy of Max Stirner, a 19th-century German philosopher whose "name appears
Portrait of Max Stirner by Friedrich Engels
Benjamin Tucker, who abandoned natural rights positions and converted to Stirner's egoist anarchism
Albert Camus, who devoted a section of The Rebel to Stirner
Johann Caspar Schmidt, known by the pen name Max Stirner, was a German philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of
Egoist anarchism
…Egoist anarchism or anarcho-egoism, often shortened to egoism, is a school of anarchist thought that originated in the philosophy of Max Stirner, a 19th-century German philosopher whose "name appears with familiar regularity in historically orientated surveys of anarchist thought…
Sketch of Stirner by Friedrich Engels, 1842
Stirner's birthplace in Bayreuth
Stirner, here depicted by Engels in 1842 standing, smoking and laying a hand on a table, was a member of the short-lived Young Hegelian group known as Die Freien.
Posthumous sketch of Stirner by Engels for Mackay's 1892 biography, the second of the two surviving portraits of Stirner