Max Stirner
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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
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
Egoist anarchism
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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
Max Stirner
…the slavery of labour. If labour becomes free, the state is lost." For Stirner, "Labor has an egoistic character; the laborer is the egoist." Stirner's egoism argues that individuals are impossible to fully comprehend, as no understanding of the self can adequately describe the fullness of experience. Stirner…
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