Long 19th c. · 1806–1856
Who influenced Max Stirner?
Influences and legacy
The ego and its own: every spook — state, God, humanity — dissolves before the unique one.
Max Stirner was influenced by Georg W. F. Hegel, and went on to influence Friedrich Nietzsche. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Max Stirner?
Max Stirner was the pen name of Johann Caspar Schmidt from Bayreuth. He heard Hegel lecture in Berlin, joined the circle of the Young Hegelians and, while earning his living as a teacher, wrote his best-known book, The Ego and Its Own (1844).
His work deals with the Hegelian themes of alienation and self-consciousness, and he is often seen as a forerunner of nihilism, existentialism, postmodernism, individualist anarchism and egoism. After a failed business venture he lived by translation and died in obscurity in Berlin in 1856.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Max Stirner?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
Who did Max Stirner influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Max Stirner.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900
The line of teachers behind Max Stirner
The longest documented line of influence ending at Max Stirner runs 23 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Max Stirner
Two steps away from Max Stirner
Indirect influences
- Through Georg W. F. Hegel: Heraclitus, Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottfried Herder, F. W. J. Schelling
The second generation
Contemporaries of Max Stirner
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Max Stirner, with no direct line between them.
- John Stuart Mill 1806–1873
- Ivan Kireyevsky 1806–1856
- Alexis de Tocqueville 1805–1859
- Harriet Taylor Mill 1807–1858
- Ludwig Feuerbach 1804–1872
- Aleksey Khomyakov 1804–1860
- Charles Darwin 1809–1882
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–1882
Max Stirner by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 89
- Thinkers downstream
- 18
- Wikipedia languages
- 61 — #28 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Max Stirner
- Who influenced Max Stirner?
- Georg W. F. Hegel.
- Who did Max Stirner influence?
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
- When did Max Stirner live?
- 1806–1856. The map files Max Stirner under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Max Stirner card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Max Stirner in 61 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Charles Darwin 1809–1882
- Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910
- Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821–1881
- Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900
- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
- Friedrich Engels 1820–1895
- Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855