/lit/ - Literature

i have no social life

We decide how to live this life, as we as subjects have a unique experience of this existence, and therefore also unique priorities. So I do what I want to do. But how can I know what I really want? Free will is limited. The way I am thinking today is just a function of numberless spooks/abstractions I have been exposed to in my life. It is impossible to free yourself from all of them, most we won't even recognize as abstractions. They are our reality, subconsciousness axioms we use for practical living. So all of those spooks from the outside do not stand above me, but are actually on the same level as I am. They are a part of me, they are what makes me myself. The ego only stands above everything in theory, as some kind of blank disc. But when growing up there is no more distinction between this pure ego and the way the environment has altered it.

Obviously his philosophy helps to overcome the apparent importance of the biggest abstractions like religion, state, expectations of society etc. But after all there is no way out of the spook house called life. In the end I live my life the way my personal, deep settled spooks allow me to. Trying to overcome them would be a total destruction of the self, leaving nothing behind.

Well you see...um ...

I miss the Stirner threads.

>tfw i accidentally my folder with over a hundred stirners

>tfw stirner's biography is a sad read instead of a very edgy one

i'll just wait until he gets stuck by a bug

>mfw I realize Romeo and Juliet is a proto-stirnerian work

Stirner planned and financed (with Marie's inheritance) an attempt by some Young Hegelians to own and operate a milk-shop on co-operative principles. This enterprise failed partly because the dairy farmers were suspicious of these well-dressed intellectuals. The milk shop was also so well decorated that most of the potential customers felt too poorly dressed to buy their milk there.

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"Stirner planned and financed (with Marie's inheritance) an attempt by some Young Hegelians to own and operate a milk-shop on co-operative principles. This enterprise failed partly because the dairy farmers were suspicious of these well-dressed intellectuals. The milk shop was also so well decorated that most of the potential customers felt too poorly dressed to buy their milk there."

>tfw too patrician for commerce

I am grateful to the one guy who made a thread 1 1/2 years ago asking 'so did Nietzsche just rip off Stirner?'. That lead me to a year of trying to write a PhD on Stirner, was pretty fun.

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Psycho-Analysis deals with individuals who have an irrational attachment to certain ideas, yes. However, I hate Lacan with a passion and I highly doubt that he is 'compatible' with Stirner. Stirner's solution to the prescriptive natuer of humanism is to refer to individuals as 'Einzige', Unique Ones, and he specifically states that this is only a referrence to what cannot be said, because concrete individuals cannot be expressed by language. Thus his Unique One is the last phrase, no system of concepts can be constructed upon it. Stirner leaves the 'realm of ideas' by refusing to relate to himself in terms of linguistic representation, so according to Lacan this is impossible (or it is the 'death of the subject', I'm not sure because I don't read Lacan).

>33 pictures of Max Stirner

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