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Max Stirner — Alfredo M. Bonanno
Limited Edition. 460 pages · Clothbound hardcover · Bacchus Editions
For decades, Bonanno’s Max Stirner remained one of the most substantial and uncompromising anarchist engagements with Stirner ever written, yet strangely inaccessible to English readers despite Bonanno’s enormous influence across insurrectionary and post-left milieus. Bacchus Editions undertook this translation during Alfredo’s lifetime through years of friendship, correspondence, discussion, and close familiarity with his thinking and writing, allowing this edition to emerge with unusual fidelity to the density, rhythm, hostility, lyricism, and philosophical precision of the original Italian text.
Our edition draws from both Bonanno’s original edition and his later revised editions, bringing together the fullest evolution of the work into English for the first time.
This is not a distant academic study orbiting Stirner from the safety of interpretation. Bonanno enters directly into the violence, tension, beauty, and danger of Stirner’s thought, tracing he architecture of The Unique and Its Property, and the abyss that opens beneath it. Moving through Hegelian philosophy, Feuerbach, anarchist individualism, rebellion, negation, egoist union, silence, action, and the territory Bonanno repeatedly names as the “absolutely other,” this work remains one of the deepest anarchist confrontations with Stirner ever produced.
The present English edition appears in a carefully restored clothbound hardcover volume totaling 460 pages. Pages 1–445 consist entirely of Bonanno’s translated text. The volume also includes a new editorial introduction, a concluding section of Bacchus Editions annotations and postscript reflections prepared specifically for this edition, and a final citations section.
Bonanno’s introduction to the revised Italian edition remains perfect, pushing beyond anarchism as identity or doctrine toward something harsher, stranger, and more ungovernable. “L’unico e la sua proprietà non è un manuale di comportamento… È il libro dell’ ‘assolutamente altro’.”
Part philosophical excavation, part existential weapon, part meditation on action, silence, illegibility, and rupture, this volume stands not only as a major contribution to Stirner studies, but as one of the central texts in Bonanno’s intellectual trajectory.
Editorial Introduction
Note from Bonanno on Bacchus Editions’ Translation
Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
The Hegelian Left
Feuerbach and Stirner
The Problem of Stirner’s Position Within the Hegelian Left
Stirner and Kierkegaard
The Final Part of Stirner’s Life: Silence as Suicide
The Unique and Its Property
Minor Writings
The Problem of God
The Problem of the State
The Union of Egoists
The Critique of Marx and Engels
Individualism and Its Equivocations
Anarchist Individualism and the Philosophical Theme of Stirner
Deviance and Rebellion
Postscript Reflections
Citations and References
Max Stirner — Alfredo M. Bonanno
Limited Edition. 460 pages · Clothbound hardcover · Bacchus Editions
For decades, Bonanno’s Max Stirner remained one of the most substantial and uncompromising anarchist engagements with Stirner ever written, yet strangely inaccessible to English readers despite Bonanno’s enormous influence across insurrectionary and post-left milieus. Bacchus Editions undertook this translation during Alfredo’s lifetime through years of friendship, correspondence, discussion, and close familiarity with his thinking and writing, allowing this edition to emerge with unusual fidelity to the density, rhythm, hostility, lyricism, and philosophical precision of the original Italian text.
Our edition draws from both Bonanno’s original edition and his later revised editions, bringing together the fullest evolution of the work into English for the first time.
This is not a distant academic study orbiting Stirner from the safety of interpretation. Bonanno enters directly into the violence, tension, beauty, and danger of Stirner’s thought, tracing he architecture of The Unique and Its Property, and the abyss that opens beneath it. Moving through Hegelian philosophy, Feuerbach, anarchist individualism, rebellion, negation, egoist union, silence, action, and the territory Bonanno repeatedly names as the “absolutely other,” this work remains one of the deepest anarchist confrontations with Stirner ever produced.
The present English edition appears in a carefully restored clothbound hardcover volume totaling 460 pages. Pages 1–445 consist entirely of Bonanno’s translated text. The volume also includes a new editorial introduction, a concluding section of Bacchus Editions annotations and postscript reflections prepared specifically for this edition, and a final citations section.
Bonanno’s introduction to the revised Italian edition remains perfect, pushing beyond anarchism as identity or doctrine toward something harsher, stranger, and more ungovernable. “L’unico e la sua proprietà non è un manuale di comportamento… È il libro dell’ ‘assolutamente altro’.”
Part philosophical excavation, part existential weapon, part meditation on action, silence, illegibility, and rupture, this volume stands not only as a major contribution to Stirner studies, but as one of the central texts in Bonanno’s intellectual trajectory.
Editorial Introduction
Note from Bonanno on Bacchus Editions’ Translation
Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
The Hegelian Left
Feuerbach and Stirner
The Problem of Stirner’s Position Within the Hegelian Left
Stirner and Kierkegaard
The Final Part of Stirner’s Life: Silence as Suicide
The Unique and Its Property
Minor Writings
The Problem of God
The Problem of the State
The Union of Egoists
The Critique of Marx and Engels
Individualism and Its Equivocations
Anarchist Individualism and the Philosophical Theme of Stirner
Deviance and Rebellion
Postscript Reflections
Citations and References
