Max Stirner#Max
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#Max
Max Stirner · 1806–1856
In the books · 1 chapter
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“A quiet Berlin schoolteacher wrote the most extreme book of the nineteenth century — so threatening that Marx and Engels spent more pages attacking it than the book itself contained.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Every abstraction placed above you — God, the State, Humanity, Morality — is a ghost haunting your head, and a free life begins when you stop serving ghosts and own yourself.”
From the book
- The Great PhilosophersMax Stirner is Chapter 172 of Vol 5, The Nineteenth Century & the Modern Turn.
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