[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations. — John Carroll Determination Copy Share Image
Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless,… — John Carroll Assertive Copy Share Image
Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse… — John Carroll Benefits Copy Share Image
The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly… — John Carroll Absence Copy Share Image
In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his… — John Carroll Career Copy Share Image
For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as… — John Carroll Axioms Copy Share Image
Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their… — John Carroll Asks Copy Share Image
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for… — John Carroll Arguing Copy Share Image
The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity,… — John Carroll Analysis Copy Share Image
The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is,… — John Carroll Actors Copy Share Image
Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they… — John Carroll Accepting Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'. — John Carroll Christ Copy Share Image
A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play. — John Carroll Adventure Copy Share Image
Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom. — John Carroll Alternatives Copy Share Image
Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction. — John Carroll Destruction Copy Share Image