Self-ownership and Spontaneously-Evolved Order. The Core of the Max Stirner’s Individualist Anarchism

• Maciej Chmielinski ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Łódź

     University of Łódź

     Łódź, Polonia

     
• Localización: Res Publica: revista de historia de las ideas políticas, ISSN-e 1989-6115, Vol. 19, Nº. 2, 2016, págs. 459-476
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5209/RPUB.53875
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Autopropiedad y orden espontáneamente desarrollado. El corazón del anarquismo individualista de Max Stirner
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    El autor de este artículo argumenta que, a pesar de la naturaleza subjetivista del pensamiento de Max Stirner, en este sentido distinto del libertarismo, existe una fuerte afinidad intelectual entre la rama anarquista del libertarismo y la concepción de Stirner. Esta tesis se basa en tres argumentos esenciales. En primer lugar, la obra principal de Stirner, El único y su propiedad, representa uno de los más entusiastas pronunciamientos en favor del individualismo social basado en la idea de autopropiedad. En segundo lugar, la clave de bóveda de las dos filosofías políticas analizadas es la idea del orden espontáneo, es decir, la convicción de la posibilidad de una cooperación eficiente entre individuos egoístas sin mediación de coerciones externas. En tercer lugar, hay conexiones históricas importantes entre la concepción de Stirner y los representantes del anarquismo individualista o libertario.

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    Author of the article argues that in spite of a subjectivist nature of Max Stirner’s thought which is distinct from libertarianism, there’s a strong intellectual affinity between anarchist wing of it and Stirner’s conception. This position is based on three crucial arguments. First, Stirner’s opus magnum The Ego and Its Own is one of the most zealous declarations of social individualism based upon the idea of self-ownership. Second, the Archimedean point of both analyzed political philosophies is the idea of spontaneous order, i.e. the conviction that the efficient cooperation between egoistic individuals – and thus not mediated by any external constraints - is possible. Third, there are important historical connections between Stirner’s conception and representatives of individualistic or libertarian anarchism.

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