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20384522 No.20384522 [Reply] [Original]

Why isn’t Stirner given more credit as one of the fathers of existentialism? Seems like he is overshadowed by his meme status as an anarchist.

>> No.20384570

No clue, mate. But he definitely looks like a soijak. Either way. I was thinking of reading him. Already picked up The Ego and It's Own and Stirner's critics. What other work should I pick up from him?

>> No.20384581

>>20384570
I heard Stirner’s Critics clarifies a lot of his philosophy. I’d recommend that.

>> No.20384584

>>20384581
Sorry, I’m retarded and didn’t see that you already listed that. I think those two are all you need.

>> No.20384650

>>20384522
Sartre in "Existentialism is a Humanism" went out of his way to demonstrate that existentialism doesn't entail the kind of nihilism Stirner adopted. If existentialism is to be associated with the likes of Sartre and Camus - leftists with a penchant for social activism -, then I don't see Stirner's affinity to it. And "authenticity" doesn't seem to play a role in his philosophy.

>> No.20384693

>>20384650
I don’t really care what Sartre thought. Grounding social reality in the Unique, his concept of the self ex nihilo and formulating a philosophy centered around self-actualization is as proto-existentialist as it gets.

>> No.20384858

>>20384693
Well following that logic, Stirner is irrelevant, since Protagoras is already an even bigger and more influential proto-existentialist.

>> No.20384950

>>20384858
Many existentialists (I can think of Cioran off the top of my head) were influenced by the sophists. However, if we are going to credit someone for its emergence in the 19th century, I think Stirner should be up there with Kierkegaard.