Author : Anthology
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781365236396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Enemies of Society: An Anthology of Individualist & Egoist Thought by : Anthology
Download or read book Enemies of Society: An Anthology of Individualist & Egoist Thought written by Anthology and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the most neglected tendency in anarchist thought; egoism. Egoism, and individualist anarchism, suffer a different kind of fate. It is not a great history and glorious failure but an obscure series of stories of winning, with victory defined by the only terms that matter, those of people who lived life to their fullest and whose struggle against the existing order defined them. This struggle was not one of abstractions, of Big Ideas, but of people attempting to claim an authentic stake in their own life. Inspired by the writings of Stirner's "The Ego and His Own" the assertion these people make is not of the composition of a better world (for everyone) but of how the machinations of society, especially one of abstractions and Big Ideas, have shaped the individual members of that society. How everything that we know and believe has been shaped (by structure and intent) into a conformed, denatured shadow of what we could be.