Medienkombination, Englisch, Deutsch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 100 mm x 150 mm, Gewicht: 245 g
Der Einzige und sein Eigentum
Medienkombination, Englisch, Deutsch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 100 mm x 150 mm, Gewicht: 245 g
ISBN: 978-3-86874-013-4
Verlag: "greatest hits"
Michalis Pichler's appropriation/erasure of Max Stirner's 1844 manifesto of individual anarchism, The Ego and Its Own, explores issues of translatability/in-translatability of poetry. The chapter titles and headers have been maintained, while the main text has been almost completely cut out save for the first-person-signifiers. Layout, typeset and dimensions follow the German version, which has been in print almost unchanged for the last 37 years by Reclam Universal-Bibliothek. Pichler's erasure is followed with an afterword by Annette Gilbert and an epilogue by Craig Dworkin. By adding a slipcover with bilingual glossary and a newly commissioned essay by Patrick Greaney, UDP's American edition, co-published by Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn and "greatest hits," attempts to make the book accessible to an English readership.
Weitere Infos & Material
All Things Are Nothing To Me . . . . . . . 3
Contents
First Part: Man
I. A Human Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
II. Men of the Old Time and the New . . . 15
1. The Ancients . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2. The Moderns . . . . . . . . . . . 26
§1. The Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . 29
§2. The Possessed . . . . . . . . . 36
§3. The Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . 71
3. The Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
§1. Political Liberalism . . . . . . . . 107
§2. Social Liberalism . . . . . . . . . 127
§3. Humane Liberalism. . . . . . . . 136
Second Part: I
I. Ownness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
II. The Owner . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
1. My Power . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
2. My Intercourse . . . . . . . . . . . 231
3. My Self-Enjoyment . . . . . . . . . 358
III. The Unique One . . . . . . . . . . 407
Appendix
Ich hab’ Mein Sach’ auf Nichts gestellt . . . 415
All Things Are Nothing To Me . . . . . . 419
Nachwort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Wie so bettelhaft wenig ist Uns verblieben . 457
How beggarly little is left us . . . . . . . 459
Inhalt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
"How beggarly little is left us, yes, how really nothing! Everything has been removed," writes Max Stirner in Der Einzige und sein Eigentum. Everything, that is, in the case of Michalis Pichler's edition of the book, save the first person pronouns. By the grace of Pichler's conjuring, those words haunt Stirner's otherwise repressed text, floating against the white sheets of the page. Remaindered, the rendered I remains (remains to be seen).
Haunting, in fact (as Jacques Derrida notes in Spectres de Marx), is at the heart of Stirner's work. But what murder has left us with this specter avenging the desecration of the partially buried body of the text? Stirner argues that when the force of the master is removed it becomes a ghost, manifesting itself in some version of the Law. Accordingly, while both the author and God (Einziger) may be dead, we still — as Nietzsche warned — have grammar. And grammar, in turn, haunts the declensions of the reventant nouns here — a phantom limb, felt but unseen, surrounding the dismembered residium of autistic printed matter.
The possession is thus complete: demonic, obsessive, anarchic (impropre): "through a lucky chance or by stealth," "by force or ruse," as Stirner phrases it, Pichler's creative plagiarism has taken the permission of impression, of the right to print, from both Stirner and from himself. At the same time, his textual choices, his paradoxical repetition of the ostensibly unique, insists on a "corporeal ego" that cannot be removed from the defining idea of this ideal project. The most abstract, conceptual gestures must always be embodied. Here then is conceptual art as confessional lyric, the spirit and the letter, the flesh made word. It is only through the flesh, Stirner counsels, that we can break the tyranny of the mind.
—Craig Dworkin
