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Max Stirner

Max Stirner
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Dostoevsky was rattled by the vast consequences of eliminating
God from the universe, and yet he was captivated by how easily and systematically a thoughtful mind could sweep everything away. Each new idea seemed more radical than the last. Belinsky’s atheism derived largely from a group of German intellectuals called themselves ‘Doe Freien’ (the Free Ones), who gathered in Berlin wine bar in the early 1840s. Their meetings were raucous – even the women played billiards and smoked. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels sometimes attended, and one night Engels drew a sketch of the disorder”:

Someone tramples pages of writing during an argument. Someone else pounds his fist on a table cluttered with bottles while a soldier next to a toppled chair slumps over his wine glass. And in the background, a slender, well-dressed man calmly smokes a cigar and watches the chaos through steel-rimmed glasses.

That man’s name was Max Stirner. And he, perhaps more than anyone, embodied what it meant to sweep everything away. . . . . He was for Dostoevsky, a philosopher who took hold of a great truth but clutched it too tightly. Few people knew much about him – not even his real name ( “Max Stirner” was a nickname honoring his large forehead [Stirn] ) He taught history and literature at a school for young women. He smiled thinly during Die Freien’s discussions, occasionally whispering to the person next to him, and in 1844 he published a book (The Ego and His Own) that shocked everyone who managed to get hold of it. Stirner argued that Die Freien’s atheists were really priests in secular clothing. They simply replaced one sacred abstraction with another: ‘humanity’ . . . . Page 49/50
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The Ego and His own
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