Max Stirner, as a precursor to Nietzsche

[miguelantonio]

Stirner, Max was a man ahead of his time. So much so, that academics didn't value his work appropriately, not even now. I even read that young Nietzsche got scared at the nihilistic philosophy of Max, and reacted studying theology and then philology. Only to later create something with some clear inspiration from him, without giving appropiate credit to him (he doesn't even bother to make some reference to him).

Read more about this forgotten philosopher here (you can even download his book "The Ego and its Own" for free):
www.nonserviam.com/stirner/

[amble]

Thankyou for posting that link. I was quite amazed reading one of his shorter essays "art and religion", since the opening two or three paragraphs are essentially a more complete explanation of a theory i tried writing down a few years ago. That there is a perfect "something", the acquisition of which is the reason for any activity one may engage in. It is this ideal that the writer, the painter, the musician are pursuing, in an attempt to get this perfect something out into the universe. Stirner explains it more competently than i can.