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Notes
- John Milton, Paradise Lost, in The Complete Poems, ed. by John
Leonard (London: Penguin, 1998), i. 263. - Milton, i. 258–59.
- Coined by Blanqui, the slogan soon became so closely associat-
ed with anarchism that writers distant to anarchism often referred
to it as a typical example of anarchist thinking. See e.g. Friedrich
Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie
der Zukunft, in Kritische Studienausgabe, ed. by Giorgio Colli and
Mazzino Montinari, 15 vols (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1988), v, 125 (§
202); Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (London:
Penguin, 2007), 242. - The conference session this book grew out of had the heading “‘No
Master but God?’ Exploring the Compatibility of Anarchism and
Religion” and the subsequent call for papers stated “many anarchists
insist that religion is fundamentally incompatible with anarchism, re-
calling that anarchism calls for ‘no gods, no masters’”. - Cf. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 4th edn
(Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), § 115. - Max Stirner, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, ed. by Ahlrich Meyer
(Stuttgart: Reclam, 1981). Since the tone of the rest of Stirner’s writ-
ings (collected in Kleinere Schriften, ed. by John Henry Mackay, 2nd
edn (Treptow bei Berlin: Bernhard Zack, 1914)) is in fact quite differ-
ent and what I am interested in is not Stirner but the kind of picture
mentioned above, I will only make references to those writings when
they are in line with Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, not when they
differ from it. - For some examples, with their respective strengths and weakness-
es, see Karl Löwith, Das Individuum in der Rolle des Mitmenschen
(Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1928); Karl Löwith, Von Hegel zu
Nietzsche: Der revolutionäre Bruch im Denken des 19. Jahrhunderts,
7th edn (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1978); Hans G. Helms, Die
Ideologie der anonymen Gesellschaft: Max Stirners ›Einziger‹ und der
Fortschritt des demokratischen Selbstbewußtseins vom Vormärz bis
zur Bundesrepublik (Köln: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1966); R. W. K.
Paterson, The Nihilistic Egoist: Max Stirner (Oxford: Oxford University