/lit/ - Literature

>>10767871
In general, to quote SEP, "In the 1960s and early 1970s, Stirner was rediscovered as a forerunner of existentialism, whose anti-essentialist concept of the self as a ‘creative nothing’ had affinities with the notion of human nature employed by Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). More recently, Stirner has been identified as a nascent poststructuralist (linked not least with Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)), rejecting the idea of a universal human nature, employing a genealogical critique of humanist discourses of power and identity, and opposing various forms of state-centric thought. It would be a mistake to deny that these parallels can be plausible and interesting. However, they might well seem to reflect changing historical enthusiasms as much as they accurately capture aspects of Stirner's philosophical and political thought."

He also was an adversary to Marx and Marx's criticism of Stirner forced him to reconsider/elaborate on some of his arguments. His book also caused a stir in Left-wing Hegelians too.

Why does 4chan like him? For edginess and for the sake of being contrarian I'd guess.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/max-stirner/

What separates good taste from pretentiousness?

If you have taste, are you doomed to be a snob?

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-folly-of-scientism

posting from an earlier thread on this, this article is relevant to the discussion. (New Atlantis is the name of a Francis Bacon short story, not some conspiracy theory title I swear.)

>>6957591
If you've read the bible (or at minimum the essential old testament books + selections of the most important new testament) read St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.

Also, read the Greeks because most decent Theologians will reference them heavily and will be expanding upon their works and ideas..