Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stepelevich, Lawrence S.

Titel

A Union of Egoists: Max Stirner and Moses Hess

Ist Teil von

• The Philosophical forum, 2014-12, Vol.45 (4), p.335-353

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Shlomo Avineri, in his study of Moses Hess, writes that Hess, in his 1845 article, The Last Philosophers (die letzen philosophers), gets into a detailed critique of Stirner's book, The Individual and His Property (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum), which he sees as the most extreme philosophical expression of egoistic individualism. This criticism should not concern us here in its details. Given the concise nature of his book (226 pages), Aveneri's lack of concern over the details of Hess's criticism is understandable. However, not to consider the details of Hess's criticism of Stirner, as well as to ignore Stirner's rebuttal, is to lose sight of a most important philosophical confrontation between two antithetical and radical social thinkers: Stirner and Hess.