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Max Stirner

Also known as Johann Kaspar Schmidt

German philosopher (1806-1856)

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Max Stirner was born on 25 October 1806 and died on 26 June 1856. He is an author with works including *The ego and his own*, *Der Einzige und sein Eigentum*, *der Eyntsiger un zayn eygenṭum*, *Falso Principio de Nuestra Educacion o el Humanismo y el Realismo*, and *Max Stirner's kleinere Schriften und seine Entgegnungen auf die Kritik seines Werkes*.

His works are referenced by 1,417 other encyclopedia articles. Digital records list his work count at 23, 5, or 2 depending on the source. On Last.fm, he has 176 listeners and a playcount of 760. His associated tags include spooks, spooky, PURE IDEOLOGY, and spoopy. Similar artists listed are Halloween Songs, Skull Trumpet, Ohsees (formerly OCS), ± ΘVMΣG∆ƆV℟SΣ ±, and ✞𝖒ᶸ𝖌𝖑✞.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 25 October 1806
Died: 26 June 1856
Works: 23

Top works

The ego and his own
der Eyntsiger un zayn eygenṭum
Falso Principio de Nuestra Educacion o el Humanismo y el Realismo
Der Einzige und sein Eigentum
Max Stirner's kleinere Schriften und seine Entgegnungen auf die Kritik seines Werkes

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 176
Total plays: 760

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,579x
A smooth particle mesh Ewald method
· 1995 · cited 21,505x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,860x
Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,439x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,613x

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Quotes

“Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.”
“Wollen wir etwa die Pädagogik den Philosophen in die Hände spielen? Nichts weniger als das! Sie würden sich ungeschickt genug benehmen. Denen allein werde sie anvertraut, die mehr sind als Philosophen, darum aber auch unendlich mehr als Humanisten oder Realisten.”
“Yes, so it is that knowledge itself must die in order to blossom forth again in death as will; the freedom of thought, belief, and conscience, these wonderful flowers of three centuries will sink back into the lap of mother earth so that a new freedom, the freedom will, will be nourished with its most noble juices.”
“The will is not fundamentally right, as the practical ones would like very much to assure us; one may not pass over the desire for knowledge in order to stand immediately in the will, but knowledge perfects itself to will when it desensualizes itself and creates itself as a spirit "which builds its own body."”
“On the contrary, to educate rational people, that should be sufficient; it is not really intended for sensible people; to understand things and conditions, there is the matter ended,—to understand oneself does not seem to be everyman's concern.”
“If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.”

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Max Stirner, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum.

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Encyclopedic overview

Johann Caspar Schmidt (25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known by the pen name Max Stirner (/ˈstɜːrnər/; German: [ˈʃtɪʁnɐ]), was a German philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism, individualist anarchism, and egoism.

Born in 1806 in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Stirner's life and work are known largely through a biography by John Henry Mackay. Following the death of his father, he was raised in West Prussia after his mother's remarriage. Stirner studied at the University of Berlin, where he attended Hegel's lectures. He then moved into teaching and became involved with the Young Hegelians in Berlin. Although he struggled to secure a permanent academic post, Stirner became a fixture in intellectual circles and wrote his most famous work, The Ego and Its Own (1844), while supporting himself as a teacher.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Max Stirner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.