Sign up for Closereads at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy to get future parts on this reading, as well as our previous and future installments of this podcast. Why are there two audio players? The first is ad-free for PEL Supporters. Mark and Wes read through and discuss Karl Marx's The German Ideology (1846), delving deep into the middle of his critique of Max Continue Reading …
Ep. 358: Max Stirner’s Egoism (Part Two)
Subscribe to get parts 1 and 2 of this now, ad-free, plus tons of bonus content. Continuing from part one on The Ego and Its Own, focusing now on the sections "The Owner" and "My Power." Stirner lets us know that his egoism ("ownness") is not compatible with liberal egalitarianism, which he sees as just a continuation of the Christian project of perfecting humanity. He Continue Reading …
Ep. 358: Max Stirner’s Egoism (Part One)
Subscribe to get parts 1 and 2 of this now, ad-free, plus tons of bonus content. Continuing our trip through Marx and his influences, Wes, Dylan, and Seth read The Ego and its Own (1844), also translated as The Unique and its Property. Max Stirner was the pen name of Johann Kaspar Schmidt, and he went farther than Feuerbach in rejecting the status quo of a society driven Continue Reading …
Ep. 358: Max Stirner’s Egoism (Part One for Supporters)
Continuing our trip through Marx and his influences, Wes, Dylan, and Seth read The Ego and its Own (1844), also translated as The Unique and its Property. Max Stirner was the pen name of Johann Kaspar Schmidt, and he went farther than Feuerbach in rejecting the status quo of a society driven by religion and traditional morality, prefiguring Nietzsche (though Nietzsche was aware Continue Reading …
What Do Existentialists Think about Love?
In this video, philosopher Skye Cleary introduces her new book, Existentialism and Romantic Love. If you skip past the rather awkward acting of Simone de Beauvoir’s play Who Shall Die, from about the sixth minute onward things become interesting. In a style that has become her own—treading lightly (and gracefully) between scholarly analysis and a lighter, more popular Continue Reading …