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Max Stirner

1806 - 1856

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Max Stirner () 25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), born Johann Kaspar Schmidt, was a German post-Hegelian 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, he was a German philosopher whose life and work are known largely through the biography by John Henry Mackay. He was orphaned young and raised in West Prussia after his mother’s remarriage. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Stirner is the 158th most popular philosopher (down from 148th in 2019), the 268th most popular biography from Germany (down from 225th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Philosopher.

Max Stirner is most famous for his book "The Ego and His Own." In this book, he argues that the individual should not submit to any external authority, including the state, the church, or any other social institution.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Max Stirner ranks 158 out of 1,267. Before him are John Venn, Han Fei, Louis Althusser, Friedrich Schleiermacher, György Lukács, and Clement of Alexandria. After him are Max Scheler, Hans Kelsen, Ibn Tufail, Oswald Spengler, Paul Ricœur, and Herbert Marcuse.

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Among people born in 1806, Max Stirner ranks 3. Before him are John Stuart Mill, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. After him are Benito Juárez, Augustus De Morgan, Emilia Plater, Catherine Labouré, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Gleyre, and Omar Pasha. Among people deceased in 1856, Max Stirner ranks 4. Before him are Robert Schumann, Heinrich Heine, and Amedeo Avogadro. After him are Nikolai Lobachevsky, Adolphe Adam, Paul Delaroche, John Ross, Ivan Paskevich, Étienne Cabet, Ľudovít Štúr, and Florestan I, Prince of Monaco.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Stirner ranks 268 out of 7,253. Before him are Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Ludwig Erhard (1897), Konstantin von Neurath (1873), Albert Kesselring (1885), Friedrich Bessel (1784), and Walther von Brauchitsch (1881). After him are Max Scheler (1874), Wilhelm Canaris (1887), Oswald Spengler (1880), Leopold von Ranke (1795), Irma Grese (1923), and Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Max Stirner ranks 24. Before him are Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Baron d'Holbach (1723), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Edith Stein (1891), and Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714). After him are Max Scheler (1874), Oswald Spengler (1880), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), and Carl Schmitt (1888).

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