The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner

Author: Stirner, Max
Title: The Ego and His Own
Publisher: A.C. Fifield
Date: 1912
Place: London
Dimensions: 16mo. 17.5cm x 12cm

xx + 506pp +[18] pub ads.
2nd English edition.

Pale buckram boards, boxed titles to top board and spine.
A good copy, some soiling to the boards, top board with gutter partially cracked. Light foxing to prelims, endmatter. Edges toned. Small label to foot of spine.

This is the second English edition, following the first of 1907 published by Tucker in New York.
Max Stirner was an early anarchist thinker and member of the Young Hegelians along with Engels and Marx. This, his major work, is a critique of Christianity, moralism and the philosophical liberalism associated with the growing socialist movement of the late 19th century. Stirner advocated instead for an amoral egoism and the valorisation of the self - currents of which influenced later existentialist, individualist-anarchist and libertarian thinking.

A good copy of an important and often overlooked work in the development of Western philosophical, socio-political and economic thought.