Mitchell Chatfield’s Reviews > Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt > Status Update

Finished main text. Addenda to be read.

Pages 133 and 134 I suspect will be the basis of a lot of the eventual review. There are some speculative pro-capitalist claims which I’m not sure hold much if any water, especially given the very quote from Stirner seems to rebut such an assertion.

It’s making slightly more sense in view of ‘what were the consequences of The Ego?’ but this is not at all evident

Page 104 repeats, copy and paste, paragraphs from page 98. Further reinforcing that this does not appear to have been an edited work. I am also not sure what reference formatting style is used, as there is inconsistent italicisation, and some titles are contracted.

Page 89 of this edition really raises the question ‘was this edited’ - what sort of published book includes a footnote that has a direction to the author to find a reference? That’s how I would write if it were a draft…

For a book about Stirner there is an awful lot of Hegelian backstory - including Hegel himself (directly relevant) and Cieszkowski (not so sure on the relevance).

This book seems to argue in a sort of oblique or thematic way. It is nowhere near tight enough on a sentence to sentence scale. There are typos and repetitions and other superfluities. But despite that it seems to get across a synthesising view of Stirner and Hegel. I am seeming to understand the movements of the boom without each note being clear