Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt

This book examines how, in a series of critical confrontations, Stirner rejected the efforts of his "Young Hegelian" contemporaries to recast Hegel as a revolutionary. For him, the various apocalyptic declarations of these "pious atheists" were only the expressions of adolescent dreams set upon the annihilation of real individuality.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Hostile Brothers
Chapter 2: Stirner as Hegelian
Chapter 3: The Path Ahead: August von Cieszkowski
Chapter 4: The First Step: David F. Strauss
Chapter 5: An Atheistic Turn: Bruno Bauer
Chapter 6: From the God-Man to the Man-God: Ludwig Feuerbach
Chapter 7: The New World as The New Jerusalem: Moses Hess
Chapter 8: A Sudden Turn to Scientific Socialism: Marx and Engels
Chapter 9: The End of the Path
Addenda
I: Author's Review of The History of Reaction
II: Introductions and first translations of Minor Essays
A. The Free Ones
B. The Mysteries of Paris
C. Stirner's Review of Bauer's The Trumpet of the Last Judgment
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Lawrence S. Stepelevich is professor emeritus of philosophy at Villanova University.

Summary

This book examines how, in a series of critical confrontations, Stirner rejected the efforts of his “Young Hegelian” contemporaries to recast Hegel as a revolutionary. For him, the various apocalyptic declarations of these “pious atheists” were only the expressions of adolescent dreams set upon the annihilation of real individuality.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence S Stepelevich, Lawrence S. Stepelevich, Stepelevich Lawrence S.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781793636904
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-690-4
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800