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=== Max Stirner ===
=== Max Stirner ===
[[Max Stirner|Stirner]] is considered by many to hold proto-anarchist and proton-existentialist views. In ''[[The Ego and Its Own]]'', Stiener advocates for a [[Egoist Anarchism|complete rejection of society and it's very institutions]] (like the [[State (Polity)|state]], private property, religion, gender, monogamy and money) in favour of the formation of a [[Union of Egoists|union of egoists]], stating that there is nothing to look after but yourself, and to be a being of love and happiness.
[[Max Stirner|Stirner]] is considered by many to hold proto-anarchist and proton-existentialist views. In ''[[The Ego and Its Own]]'', Stiener advocates for a [[Egoist Anarchism|complete rejection of society and it's very institutions]] (like the [[State (Polity)|state]], private property, religion, gender, monogamy and money) in favour of the formation of a [[Union of Egoists|union of egoists]], stating that there is nothing to look after but yourself, and to be a being of love and happiness.
=== Friedrich Nietzsche ===
[[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzche's]] writings also contained strong critiques of religion (notably Christianity), the state and market economics. Although he held negative views of anarchists, his ideal of the ''Übermensch'' (superman), a person who was neither master nor slave, who took no regard for society and created their own morality and purpose in life.


=== Mikhail Bakunin ===
=== Mikhail Bakunin ===

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Existentialist Anarchism is a synthesis of anarchism and existentialism, arguing that existentialism provides a philosophical grounding for anarchist politics, the evidence being that many existentialist thinks gravitated towards anarchism. This tradition is largely intellectual, and not a practical guide for anarchist politics.

Thinks

Max Stirner

Stirner is considered by many to hold proto-anarchist and proton-existentialist views. In The Ego and Its Own, Stiener advocates for a complete rejection of society and it's very institutions (like the state, private property, religion, gender, monogamy and money) in favour of the formation of a union of egoists, stating that there is nothing to look after but yourself, and to be a being of love and happiness.

Mikhail Bakunin

Bakunin expressed some proto-existentialist ideals, and

Henry David Thoreau

Franz Kafka

Martin Buber

Albert Camus

Jean-Paul Sartre

Stig Dagerman

Herbert Read

Saul Newman

L. Susan Brown

Simon Critchley