Stirner is a name that I've seen multiple times over the years, but, alas, I don't know him or his work.
IIRC, he was more of an influence on Nietzsche than Bakunin, but I wouldn't mind reading articles if anyone should care to link them.
Oh yeah?
Well, what did he think about the Silesian miners strike of 1847?
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Albert Camus devotes a section of The Rebel to Stirner. He consigns him to dwelling in a desert of isolation and negation "drunk with destruction". Camus also accuses Stirner of going "as far as he can in blasphemy". He proclaims that Stirner is "intoxicated with the perspective of justifying" crime although without mentioning that Stirner carefully distinguishes between the ordinary criminal and the "criminal" as violator of the "sacred". He mishaps by misquoting Stirner through asserting that he "specifies" in relation to other human beings "kill them, do not martyr them" when in fact he writes "I can kill them, not torture them"—and this in relation to the moralist who both kills and tortures to serve the "concept of the 'good'". Although throughout his book Camus is concerned to present "the rebel" as a preferred alternative to "the revolutionary" he nowhere acknowledges that this distinction is taken from the one that Stirner makes between "the revolutionary" and "the insurrectionist"."[49]
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Can I never escape that pied noir brat?
'The Ego and Its Own', his only (?) book, is available for nothing here. I read it yeeears ago, but I can't remember a thing about it. Helpful!
Can I never escape that pied noir brat?
NEVVAH!
Zut alors!