Stirner sets his cause on nothing but himself. In the first part he traces how ancients and moderns alike subjected the individual to ideals — God, Man, humanity, the State, morality — which he treats as phantoms; in the second he describes the owner, the unique one who recognises no authority above his own power and property.
Steven Byington’s 1907 translation, published by Benjamin Tucker, of the book that provoked Marx and inspired individualist anarchists. Download the free EPUB.