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Latest revision as of 17:43, 3 April 2024

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