Max Stirner
German philosopher (1806-1856)
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Stirner spent the 1840s picking apart Hegel's ideas about alienation and self-consciousness, earning him credit as a godparent to nihilism, existentialism, and individualist anarchism—philosophies that still tick people off today.
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Johann Caspar Schmidt, known by the pen name Max Stirner, 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.
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