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The Philosophical Reactionaries

Max Stirner · 1847

Max Stirner's 1847 polemical response to Kuno Fischer, written in his own lifetime and voice.

This 1847 polemic is Stirner's own direct response to a critic, written in his own words during his lifetime.

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Max Stirner, 'The Philosophical Reactionaries: A Response to Kuno Fischer's "The Modern Sophists"', 1847. Digitized scan, Internet Archive.

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This is a scanned copy of a short polemical text written by Max Stirner in 1847, responding to Kuno Fischer's essay "The Modern Sophists." It survives today as a digitized book.

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Unlike biographies written about him later, this text is in Stirner's own words, written during his lifetime as part of a real philosophical dispute with Kuno Fischer. It shows Stirner actively defending his ideas against critics who grouped him with other so-called

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