/lit/ - Literature

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further evidence - Stirner published a German translation of Smith's Wealth of Nations, given that English was not a popular language to learn back then (certainly not for a German Hegelian philosopher) it's unlikely that Stirner would've known it from the university, Engels on the other hand had a good command of English since he attended a merchant's school in England. in addition to that - why would a writer who didn't give a fuck about economic theory translate a book on economic theory? on the other hand, it'd been perfectly understandable if Engels had translated it and later published it under his pseudonym. Stirner WAS Engels' nom de plume and you know it

I'm about to make a possibly retarded question. How the fuck have philosophers earned money for the past 2000 years? What the fuck did Nietzsche and Stirner do for a living? And why in the world does a "Philosophy Major" even exist in the 21st century?