>>24508245 (OP)Almost everyone that read this guy is an obnoxious edgelord, everyone that criticizes and hates this guy is also an obnoxious edgelord (and probably hasn’t actually read him)
Everyone seems to think (mistakenly) he’s some pessimist, skepticism, nihilist (in the sense of denying reality),
No one has taken a serious treatment of his work, read it in continuity with the people in his intellectual tradition (Feuerbach, Hegel, kant) so no one has really understood it much.
So he didn’t win in terms of creating a long lasting serious intellectual tradition. He didn’t provide a strong enough or popular enough theory of social organization, but the internationals are more or less something he has in mind (Union of egoists).
Socialists haven’t achieved much and organization today is pitiful, so he and marx and everyone else of that period hasn’t won.
The only person in academia whose had a serious effect or popularity has been JL Mackie and his “queer object” argument against morality, but he’s an analytic
Stirners greatest disciple (if Mackie read him) is an analytic
Or Nietzsche …
I don’t think Stirner was the kind of person to care about his legacy so winning/losing in this respect was probably not of concern to him
Now that leaves the question OP, if you read the book and thought it was good, then why don’t you also sit down with some German idealists, starting with Kant, and try to contextualize the arguments Stirner is making