L'Unique et sa propriété
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
- État du texte:
- Texte propre · 2 passages illisibles, exclus des réponses
- Étendue:
- ~160 000 mots · 774 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APAMax Stirner. (n.d.). L'Unique et sa propriété. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/max-stirner/the-ego-and-his-own
- MLAMax Stirner. "L'Unique et sa propriété." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/max-stirner/the-ego-and-his-own.
- ChicagoMax Stirner. L'Unique et sa propriété. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/max-stirner/the-ego-and-his-own.
De quoi il s'agit
L'attaque de Stirner, en 1844, contre toute cause qui exige de l'individu un sacrifice — Dieu, l'État, l'humanité, la morale — au nom d'un moi qui ne reconnaît rien au-dessus de lui.
Contexte et histoire
Le titre allemand est « Der Einzige und sein Eigentum », et « l'unique » ne veut pas dire exceptionnel : il veut dire irremplaçable, non subsumable sous aucune catégorie. Stirner soutient que les Lumières ont laissé l'ouvrage à moitié fait : elles ont ôté Dieu et mis à sa place l'Homme, l'État et la Morale, fantômes tout aussi exigeants. Le titre anglais de Byington, en 1907, « The Ego and His Own », égare : il ne s'agit pas du moi psychologique. Le livre a provoqué « L'Idéologie allemande » de Marx et Engels, qui y consacrent des centaines de pages, et c'est l'une des sources de l'anarchisme individualiste.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le 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.