The unique individual and his other

Stephan Strasser

pp. 9-26

in: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed), The self and the other, Dordrecht, Reidel, 1977

Abstract

The classical philosophy of ancient Greece begins with a nihilistic challenge, and at the beginning of modern philosophy, in the more narrow meaning of the word, we find the work of a man who has “staked his life on nothing.” This man wrote under the name Max Stirner.