Max Stirner

Max Stirner

(1806–1856) journalist Kingdom of Bavaria

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Max Stirner (1806–1856) was a Kingdom of Bavaria journalist, known for The Ego and Its Own.

About Max 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 the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism, individualist anarchism, and egoism.

Known for:

The Ego and Its Own

Notable works:

Der Einzige und sein Eigentum

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