Max Stirner Quotes


If one awakens in men the idea of freedom, then the free men will incessantly go on to free themselves…


Context

Johann Kaspar Schmidt


Citations

Max Stirner, 1806-1856, German Philosopher, The False Principle of our Education, 1842

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Max Stirner
Max Stirner
  • Born: October 25, 1806
  • Died: June 26, 1856
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Philosopher

Johann Kaspar Schmidt, known professionally as Max Stirner, 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 and individualist anarchism.