Max Stirner
German philosopher (1806–1856) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Johann Kaspar Schmidt (25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known professionally as Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness.[3] Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism.[4][5]
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Born | Johann Kaspar Schmidt (1806-10-25)25 October 1806 |
Died | 26 June 1856(1856-06-26) (aged 49) |
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Era | 19th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
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Main interests | Egoism, ethics, ontology, pedagogy, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, philosophy of education,[2] property theory, psychology, value theory, philosophy of love, dialectic |
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Stirner's main work, The Unique and Its Property [6][7] (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum), was first published in 1844 in Leipzig and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations.[8][9]