Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation - Brossura

F. Welsh, John

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ISBN 10: 0739141562 ISBN 13: 9780739141564

Casa editrice: Lexington Books, 2010

Riassunto

"John F. Welsh provides us with a superb distillation of the thought of Max Stirner and the dialecticalegoist paradigm he developed. Througth this brilliant study. Welsh demonstrates the power and breadth of dialectics as a radical mode of analysis and social transformation---Chris Matthew Sciabarra author of Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism

"A book of this kind has been long awaited. It is the first modern book-length, sympathetic, yet balanced and scholarly exposition of Max Stirner's thought and in my opinion, the best book on Max Stirner on the market. John F. Welsh's Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism contains new and useful arguments based on sound scholarship. Welsh shows a good grasp of what Stirner means and what he doesn't and of the different interpretations of him up until the present. The book includes different interpretations and understandings of Stirner, an exegesis of Stirner's major work. The Ego and Its Own, insights of leading historians of philosophy and a comparison of Striner and his disciples. Overall, well researched and very informative!"---Svein Olav Nyberg, Agder University College Norway

Max Stirner (1806-1856) is recognized in the history of political thought because of his egoist classic The Ego and Its Own. Stirner was a student of Hegel and a critic of the Young Hegelians and the emerging forms of socialist and communist thought in the 1840s. Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation examines Stirner's thought as a critique of modernity, by which he meant the domination of culture and politics by humanist ideology. In Stirner's view "humanity" is the supreme being of modernity and "humanism" is the prevailing legitimation of social and political domination.

John F. Welsh traces Stirner's thought from his early essays to The Ego and its Own and Stirner's responses to his critics. He also examines how Benjamin Tucker James L. Walker, and Dora Marsden applied Stirner's dialectical egoism to the analysis of the transformations of capitalism culture ethics and mass psychology, and feminism, socialism, and communism. All three viewed Stirner as a champion of individuality against the collectivizing and homogenizing forces of the modern world.

Welsh also takes great care to dissociate Stirner's thougth from that of the other great egoist critic of modernity, Friedrich Nietzsche. He argues that the similarities in the dissidence of Stirner and Nietzsche are superficial. The book concludes with an interpretation of Stirner's thought as a form of dialectical egoism that includes a multitiered analysis of culture society and individuality the basic principles of Stirner's view of the relationship between individuals and social organization and the forms of critique he employs. Stirner's critique of modernity is a significant contribution to the growing literature on libertarianism, dialectical analysis and postmodernism

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L'autore:

John F. Welsh was a professor at the University of Louisville and is currently working as an independent scholar.

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• Editore: Lexington Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0739141562
• ISBN 13: 9780739141564
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304