Patrician book

This is the definitive book for being self-counsciusness about our ego and power.
What does Veeky Forums think about Max Stirner?

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how easy is it to read for a newbie?

Not so easy, but you can try and jump some chapter. ANtyway there are a lot of analysis on internet

Is it actually worth reading?

absolutely.

I thought it was just a meme

no ahhaha he is one of the greatest theorist of anarchism, without saying one time this word in all his books.

Why do I wanna read about anarchism?

Because is a completly different way to see our reality. After this reading, the world will be different for you.

It's not like he talks about "dude fuck the State revolution now". The main thesis of the book is that the only way you have to assert propiety is through your capability to defend it.
The modern State monopolizes violence, and with that the capacity to defend private propiety, which means that while living in a State you'll never be capable of owning stuff, at most the State will lend its propiety to you, since they have the capacity to take it from you at any point in time.

He adds to this that since the State follows its own interests, generally summarized with ideals such as Justice, Man or God. This is what he calls "spooks", fake ideals that the State indoctrinates you to follow even though doing so is counter-productive. Even though the memes might make you believe otherwise, he never says that you cannot believe in god or in abstract ideals, he just says that if those ideals are introduced to your mind by your third-party, and they consistently force you to make yourself miserable, odds are they're fake ideals and they're only exist as a method of subjugation.

This is the reason why he's a nominal figure in anarchism, but he focuses more on the philosophic aspects of private propiety and the modern state than in socioeconomical matters.

>reading max as a philosopher involving collective behaviors
it's easy—do some reading on hegel, the young hegelians, nominalism and phenomenology first

>hegel, the young hegelians, nominalism and phenomenology first
i dont know if you are memeing but i read it without knowing nothing of this and it was pretty simple to understand. stirner is a travel of an easy premise to all kinds of scenarios. you dont need to know nothing in particular in order to understand it.
dont fool yourself

things can be understood at different levels

yes, but that is truth too to
>hegel, the young hegelians, nominalism and phenomenology

yeah, of course
user asked if he needed to read anything else. i could've added that it was optional, but suggested some low hanging fruit that without a lot of effort would enhance the experience of reading stirner

Read the better translation that came out last year. The older one makes more sense after reading the newer one.

this. the newer one is clearer but less fun

I would rather live in an ethnostate than with a bunch of egoist anarchists. I don't even subscribe to either ideology.

The book is too long for what it holds.
Stirner drones about unrelated stuff again and again.
There are some gems in there but all in all I'd prefer a good secondary literature about it.

But how will he expose his blatant superiority to his peers if every 5 pages he doesn't go on a tangent shitting on something someone said?

that's kind of the thing
you either belong or don't belong in an ethnostate no matter what you want, but you're completely free to join an egoist association if you believe it to be better for your own interests

Is it the same George Steiner who wrote After Babel?

stirner
steiner

the general editor you mongoloid

BEGONE SPOOKS

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>whats wrong? afraid i might...take yo property?
*calls the police and runs screaming after taking a step in general direction*

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>roots of the right
Is this true? I've always seen him more often conflated with centrism.

>influenced anarchism, postmodernism and communism
trashed

next

How can I tell he is a leftist just by looking at him?

Go take your meds Jordan.

Reading Stirner actually made me a much happier and easy going person and less of a cynic, probably because it made me less of a disappointed idealist.

Thank you uncle Max.

Depends. I'm minor educated in philosophy. Didn't study it in school, read the Greeks and some other random works (Camus, Nietzsche, Descartes, etc...) but I've never engaged with Kant, Hume, Hegel, Feuerbach, etc... but I found it easy to follow along with. You might need some additional context on to what ideas and what people he's talking shit about, but he lays out his central thesis quite extensively so that even if you never really had much in the way of philosophy instruction you would get it.

Same here. Great book, made my life more interesting for sure. He also helped me to get into Joyces works.

I want to recommend you Anti-Seneca by La Mettrie and the whole LSR-project by Bernd Laska.

Thanks senpai, will look it up.

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Firstly you need to learn German tho
lol

its good but it could be about 100 pages shorter

Stirnerlet """"""ethics"""""" is the moment you look at a society of elephant seals gouging each others eyes out with their tusks for a harem and say, "wow, this is the way humankind should live"

Why is Stirner often conflated simultaneously with both the alt-right/neoreactionaries and socialists/anarchists? Which side is misinterpreting him?

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Both or neither. You can be a Stirnerist and ally yourself with anyone who serves your interest, but you can't really buy into the spooks.

Wrong

It depends on which side of the spectrum the people trying to discredit him in that specific case fall.

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What should I read to help me learn German if I've taken a few years of classes already? Thought about reading kafka's Die Verwandlung but I'm open to suggestions