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Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt
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2020
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Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt examines Stirner's incisive criticism of his contemporaries during the period from the death of Hegel, in 1831, to the 1848 German Revolution. Stirner's work, mainly the Ego and His Own, considered each of the major figures within that German school known as “The Young Hegelians.” Lawrence S. Stepelevich argues that for Stirner, they were but “pious atheists,” and their common revolutionary ideology concealed an ancient religious ground – which Stirner set about to reveal. The central doctrine of this school, that Mankind was its own Savior, was initiated in 1835 by the theologian, David F. Strauss's in his Life of Jesus , and it progressed with August von Cieszkowski's mystical recasting of history, followed by Bruno Bauer's absolute atheism and Ludwig Feuerbach's statement that “Man is God.” This soon found reflection in the “Sacred History of Mankind” declared by Moses Hess. Within a decade, the result was the secular reformulation of this theological ideology into the “Scientific Socialism” of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Although linked to it, Max Stirner was the most relentless and feared critic of this school. His work, never out of print, but largely ignored by academics, has inspired countless “individualists” set upon rejecting any form of religious or political “causes,” and finding Stirner's assertion that he had “set his cause upon nothing” took this as their own cause.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3688-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-3689-8
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Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
214
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 1 The Hostile Brothers No access Pages 11 - 28
Chapter 2 Stirner as Hegelian No access Pages 29 - 62
Chapter 3 The Path Ahead No access Pages 63 - 78
Chapter 4 The First Step No access Pages 79 - 90
Chapter 5 An Atheistic Turn: Bruno Bauer No access Pages 91 - 108
Chapter 6 From the God-Man to the Man-God: Ludwig Feuerbach No access Pages 109 - 120
Chapter 7 The New World as the New Jerusalem: Moses Hess No access Pages 121 - 142
Chapter 8 A Sudden Turn to Scientific Socialism: Marx and Engels No access Pages 143 - 156
Chapter 9 The End of the Path No access Pages 157 - 160
