Max Stirner
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| Born | Johann Kaspar Schmidt 25 October 1806 |
| Died | 26 June 1856 (aged 49) |
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| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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| Main interests | Egoism, ethics, ontology, pedagogy, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, philosophy of education, property theory, psychology, value theory, philosophy of love, dialectic |
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Johann Kaspar Schmidt (German: [ʃmɪt]; 25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known professionally as Max Stirner (/ˈstɜːrnər/; German: [ˈʃtɪʁnɐ]), was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism, individualist anarchism, and egoism.
Stirner's main work, The Unique and Its Property (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum), was first published in 1844 in Leipzig and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations.