By John Carroll
Publish yr note: First released in 1974
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Before Marcuse and Laing, sooner than Heidegger and Sartre, even sooner than Freud, the best way was once ready for the anarcho-psychological critique of financial guy, of all codes of ideology or absolute morality, and of medical behavior of brain. First released in 1974, this identify strains this philosophical culture to its roots within the 19th century, to the figures of Stirner, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, and to their mental demolition of the 2 replacement axes of social idea and perform, a critique which this present day reads extra pertinently than ever, and continues to be unanswered.
To comprehend this critique is essential for an age which has proven a mounting revulsion on the outcomes of the Crystal Palace, image straight away of technologico-industrial growth and its rationalist-scientist ideology, an age whose ingenious preoccupations have telescoped onto the person, and whose curiosity has switched from the social realm to that of anarchic, internal, 'psychological man'.
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Thus love comes very much by chance: who can predict whether a Samaritan—and why bother to call him ‘good’? Stirner would ask—will happen along the road at the right time? Moreover, Ego (1912), p. 28; we recall the almost identical sentiment of Hamlet II:ii:259. Ego, p. 119. 2 Jenseits 175. 2 1 24 Break-out from the Crystal Palace the attempt to make love certain, to institutionalize it by turning it into a moral ought, is self-defeating—the man who tells himself to love will never love spontaneously, the man who possessively demands love will surely lose it.
Anarchoindividualism, as it is conceived in Der Einzige, indicts other theories of anarchism for not taking their attack on authority far enough, for retaining a supra-individual social ideal. The second part of Stirner’s critique of liberalism centres on the notion of freedom. Liberalism is in effect defined as that political philosophy which follows the principle of ‘freedom from’: it directs itself to removing constraints, to reducing infringements on the individual’s free choice. 5 His point is that the successful application of liberal means does not ensure that where previously there was constraint there will be fulfilment, that where there was misery there will be enjoyment.
3 In his comments on European nihilism Nietzsche associates the triumph of truth, love, and justice with the ‘preeminence of what is un-egoistic, self-denial, negation of the will’ (Wille 30). 4 Ego, p. 201. , pp. 135–6. Nietzsche’s summing up of the significance of his Morgenröte illustrates how close he is to Stirner: ‘The decisive symptom that shows how the priest (including those cryptopriests, the philosophers) has become master quite generally…is the fact that what is unegoistic is met with hostility’ (Ecce Homo III:iv:2).