The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority

图书标准信息

• 作者 Max Stirner 著
• 出版社 Dover Publications
• 出版时间 2005-12
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780486445816
• 定价 144.70元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 366页
• 正文语种 英语
• 丛书 Dover Books on Western Philosophy

【内容简介】

CreditedwithinfluencingthephilosophiesofNietzscheandAynRandandthedevelopmentoflibertarianismandexistentialism,thisprophetic1844workchallengestheverynotionofacommongoodasthedrivingforceofcivilization.Byexaminingtheroleofthehumanego,authorMaxStirnerchroniclesthebattleoftheindividualagainstthecollective—showinghow,throughouthistory,thelatterinvariablyleadstooppression.
Stirnerbeginswithastudyoftheindividualegoandthentracesitssubjugationfromancienttimestothenineteenthcentury.Nothingescapeshisindictment:theancientphilosophers,Christianity,monarchism,thebourgeoisstate;allhavefetteredindividualswithlaws,morality,andobligations.Revolutionsexpungeoneevilonlytoreplaceitwithanother,andStirnerpredicted—yearsbeforethepublicationofMarx'sManifesto—thatsocialismwouldclimaxintheultimatetotalitarianstate.
Forstudentsofpoliticalscienceandphilosophy,thisbookisessentialreading.Forthoseconcernedabouttheencroachmentofauthorityuponindividualliberty,Stirnerarticulatesaphilosophythatremainsunsurpassedinitsscope.