How long does it take to read The Ego and His Own?
Max Stirner
The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner takes about 6 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 57 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1845. 379 pages, about 104,225 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 123 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Ego and Its Own (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum; meaningfully translated as The Individual and his Property, literally as The Unique and His Property) is an 1844 work by German philosopher Max Stirner. It presents a radically nominalist and individualist critique of Christianity, nationalism, and traditional morality on one hand; and on the other, humanism, utilitarianism, liberalism, and much of the then-burgeoning socialist movement, advocating instead an amoral (although importantly not inherently immoral or antisocial) egoism. It is considered a major influence on the development of anarchism, existentialism, nihilism, and postmodernism.
Subjects: Egoism, Individualism, Anarchism, Individualist anarchism, Philosophers, germany, Ego (psychology)
