Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism : a New Interpretation.

Acknowledgments; I; MAX STIRNER AND DIALECTICAL EGOISM; 1; Max Stirner: "The Peaceful Enemy of All Constraint"; 2; Humanity--the New Supreme Being: Stirner's Summation and Critique of Modernity; 3; Ownness and Modernity: The Political Meaning of Dialectical Egoism; II; STIRNER'S INFLUENCE: THREE ENCOUNTERS WITH DIALECTICAL EGOISM; 4; The Political Economy of Modernity: Benjamin R. Tucker and the Critique of the Capitalist State; 5; Reciprocity and Predation in Everyday Life: The Egoist Thought of James L. Walker; 6.

Beyond Feminism, Beyond Anarchism: Egoism and the Political Thought of Dora MarsdenIII; MAX STIRNER AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY; 7; Two Who Made an Insurrection: Stirner, Nietzsche, and the Revolt against Modernity; 8; Dialectical Egoism: Elements of a Theoretical Framework; Selected Bibliography; About the Author.

Max Stirner (1806-1856) is recognized in the history of political thought because of his egoist classic The Ego and Its Own. Stirner was a student of Hegel, and a critic of the Young Hegelians and the emerging forms of socialist and communist thought in the 1840s. Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation examines Stirner's thought as a critique of modernity, by which he meant the domination of culture and politics by humanist ideology. In Stirner's view, "humanity" is the supreme being of modernity and "humanism" is the prevailing legitimation of social and political domination.

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