El único y su propiedad
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Texto limpio · 2 pasajes ilegibles, excluidos de las respuestas
- Extensión:
- ~160.000 palabras · 774 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAMax Stirner. (n.d.). El único y su propiedad. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/max-stirner/the-ego-and-his-own
- MLAMax Stirner. "El único y su propiedad." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/max-stirner/the-ego-and-his-own.
- ChicagoMax Stirner. El único y su propiedad. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/max-stirner/the-ego-and-his-own.
De qué trata
El ataque de Stirner de 1844 contra toda causa que pida sacrificio al individuo —Dios, el Estado, la humanidad, la moral—, en nombre de un yo que no reconoce nada por encima de sí.
Contexto e historia
El título alemán es «Der Einzige und sein Eigentum», y «el único» no significa excepcional: significa irrepetible, no subsumible en ninguna categoría. Stirner sostiene que la Ilustración dejó el trabajo a medias: quitó a Dios y puso en su lugar al Hombre, al Estado y a la Moral, fantasmas igual de exigentes. La traducción inglesa de Byington de 1907 dice «The Ego and His Own», lo que despista: no habla del ego psicológico. El libro provocó «La ideología alemana» de Marx y Engels, que le dedican cientos de páginas, y es una de las fuentes del anarquismo individualista.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
What is not supposed, to be my concern[2]! First and foremost, the Good Cause,[3] then God's cause, the cause of mankind, of truth, of freedom, of humanity, of justice; further, the cause of my people, my prince, my fatherland; finally, even the cause of Mind, and a thousand other causes. Only _my_ cause is never to be my concern. "Shame on the egoist who thinks only of himself!" Let us look and see, then, how they manage _their_ concerns--they for whose cause we are to labor, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic. You have much profound information to give about God, and have for thousands of years "searched the depths of the Godhead," and looked into its heart, so that you can doubtless tell us how God himself attends to "God's cause," which we are called to serve. And you do not conceal the Lord's doings, either. Now, what is his cause? Has he, as is demanded of us, made an alien cause, the cause of truth or love, his own? You are shocked by this misunderstanding, and you instruct us that God's cause is indeed the cause of truth and love, but that this cause cannot be called alien to him, because God is himself truth and love; you are shocked by the assumption that God could be like us poor worms in furthering an alien cause as his own. "Should God take up the cause of truth if he were not himself truth?" He cares only for _his_ cause, but, because he is all in all, therefore all is _his_ cause! But we, we are not all in all, and our cause is altogether little and contemptible; therefore we must "serve a higher cause."--Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well-pleasing to him! He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is--a purely egoistic cause.