Check out the Vagabond Theorist blog for a translation of the “Introduction” to the 2001 edition of the Italian version of Max Stirner’s Der Einzige und sein Eigentum. The translation is obviously approximate in a couple of places, but Massimo Passamani’s provocative reading of Stirner is sufficiently clear. Thanks to the Vagabond Theorist himself for making this available.
Working Translations
Alfred Fouillée, “Immoralism and the Absolute Individualism of Stirner” (1902)
NIETZSCHE ET L’IMMORALISME […] INTRODUCTION NIETZSCHE AND IMMORALISM […] INTRODUCTION CHAPITRE PREMIER l’immoralisme et l’individualisme absolu de Stirner. I. — Selon Stirner, ce n’est pas l’homme qui est la mesure de tout, c’est le moi. Stirner croit trouver le vrai point d’appui universel dans la conscience individuelle, dans ce moi toujours présent, qui se retrouve en toute pensée. Feuerbach avait proposé l’Homme à notre adoration ; c’est là, répond Stirner, un nouvel Être suprême ; l’Homme n’a aucune réalité ; tout ce qu’on lui attribue est « un vol fait à l’individu ». Feuerbach avait dit : Le Dieu dont parle Hegel après Platon n’est autre […]
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Might Makes Right (a bad book is good to find…)
Ragnar Redbeard’s infamous work, “Might is Right,” aka “The Survival of the Fittest, or the Philosophy of Power” (1896), has shown up at Archive.org. Those inclined to hate egoism should cherish this work, which has few—arguably none—of the pesky redeeming features so common in works by Stirner, Badcock, Walker, etc.
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Echoes and Fragments: Collective Egoism
One of the elements of Proudhon’s social theory which sometimes strikes people as odd or objectionable is his emphasis on “collective force” and his insistence on the existence of collective beings or individuals. I’ve had some understandably skeptical responses to my claim that Proudhon’s philosophy is essentially a philosophy of individualism—but encompassing individuals at every conceivable scale. That is, of course, a bit of a simplification—even a simplism—if we neglect to mention that, for Proudhon, individualism had a tendency to lead into socialism, and vice versa. Recall, for instance, that he expected an absolutely free and individualistic society, based on […]