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Introduction to the 2001 Edition of the Italian Version of Max Stirner’s Der Einzige und sein Eigentum

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I am not in solidarity with the men’s misery, but with the vigor with which they refuse to put up with it.–Andre Breton

   In books, each person finds what he or she seeks. No text demonstrates this better than Der Einzige und Sein Eigentum (translated into English as The Ego and Its Own, but more accurately, The Unique One and Its Property).
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Nuestro erróneo principio educativo, o el Humanismo y el Realismo

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Max Stirner (1842)

Debido a que nuestra época pugna por encontrar el término que defina su espíritu, muchos nombres son propuestos, todos con la pretensión de ser el adecuado. En todas partes actualmente nos encontramos con el variopinto y confuso tumulto de los partidos y las aves de rapiña del momento rondan alrededor de la herencia decadente del pasado. Esparcidos por todas partes en gran abundancia están los cadáveres políticos, sociales, eclesiásticos, científicos, artísticos, morales y demás, pero hasta que no se hayan consumido totalmente, el aire no estará limpio y la respiración de los seres vivos será opresiva.
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Introduction to Max Stirner, Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum by John Henry Mackay

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At the beginning of the 1840s, in a wine bar in northern Friedrichstrasse in Berlin — it was opposite the present Zentralhotel and its proprietor was named Hippel — there gathered every evening a circle of men who called themselves “The Free”, or at least they were so-called by the public. It was named “The Free” because its members belonged to the extreme left in the intellectual and political movement of those days.
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Stirner: The Ego and His Own – Max Baginski

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Benjamin R. Tucker has published the first English translation of “Der Einzige und sein Eigentum,” written in 1845 by the ingenuous German thinker Kaspar Schmidt under the pseudonym of Max Stirner. The book has been translated by Steven T. Byington, assisted by Emma Heller Schumm and George Schumm. Mr. Tucker, however, informs us in his Preface to the book that “the responsibility for special errors and imperfections” properly rests on his shoulders. He is therefore also responsible for the Introduction by the late Dr. J. L. Walker, whose narrow-minded conception of Stirner is suggestive of Individualistic idolatry.
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Mutual Utilization: Relationship and Revolt in Max Stirner

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Massimo Passamani

In the panorama of studies of Stirner there are many silences — silences that, as often happens, communicate more than words. One such silence surrounds Stirner’s reflections on the theme of interpersonal relationships, reflections that form a genuine theory of life together. As is known, his considerations on relationships are contained in that section of The Unique and Its Property entitled “My Intercourse.” Stirner attributed great importance to the description of the relations that the Unique maintains with others, as the vast amount of space he dedicates to the topic shows (it is in fact the largest section in the book).
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