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cebolla's review
3.0
Meh. Some parts of The Unique and its Property were made clearer, but for the most part it felt like people writing just to put words on paper, especially the intro.
arcadia_fades's review
5.0
Basically just a nice extension of The Unique, the writing here is just as good and it contains some of my favourite quotes from Stirner, such as "Stirner names the unique..." and "not against love, but against sacred love...". It being way shorter than The Unique is a bonus. There's honestly no reason not to read this if you liked Stirner's main work.
inkdrinker's review
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
2.5
I would've maybe given the book a higher rating if it wasn't for Jason McQuinn's frankly obnoxious and frustrating introduction which took up nearly half the goddamn book, with footnotes whole pages long which at times felt like filler and at other times were downright self-indulgent (for example, at one point Mr. McQuinn goes on about his humbly named, "McQuinn's law" which wasn't as original or profound as he presented it to be, and it was barely even related to the topic at hand).
I'd also caution future readers to take many of McQuinn's claims with a massive dose of salt (such as his dubious claims about Stirner's supposed influence on Nietzsche, the very arguable claim that Stirner's philosophy contains no presuppositions or that Stirner wasn't even a philosopher at all).
But once you get through the massive blemish that is Jason McQuinn's introduction, the rest of the book is just fine.
I'd also caution future readers to take many of McQuinn's claims with a massive dose of salt (such as his dubious claims about Stirner's supposed influence on Nietzsche, the very arguable claim that Stirner's philosophy contains no presuppositions or that Stirner wasn't even a philosopher at all).
But once you get through the massive blemish that is Jason McQuinn's introduction, the rest of the book is just fine.
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