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The only one was a magazine with individualist anarchist orientation, which appeared in very different frequency from 1919 to 1925. The title refers to Max Stirner's book The Ego and Its Own.

History

Editor of The Ego was Anselm Ruest (pseudonym for Ernst Samuel ), in the first year along with Mynona ( pseudonym of Solomon Friedlaender ), the four-sided contributed " humorous " slip which is changing titles had ( see below). The magazine also acted as a bulletin of the " Society for individualistic culture ( Stirnerbund ) ," whose representative was the budding philosopher Gerhard Lehmann.

The program of the sheet were each printed on the last page of a booklet: " The only one ... knows no parties. He stands on a strictly individualistic ground and fights against any mass suggestion and mass psychosis. He believes that the rescue of confused presence is to be found in the future, only clearer again in appeal to the ego, by Gehn Back on individuals like Stirner and Nietzsche, whose ideas he developed before all others, and will continue to expand ... "

At the beginning of the Journal was published weekly in the amount of six to eight pages, from the No 20 biweekly and irregularly from 1922. The 2nd year ( 1921) not appeared for unknown reasons. The members of the Stirnerbundes three booklets were instead offered as a replacement - Max Stirner: About Education Acts (1834 ), ed. v. Rolf Engert; Paul Cohn: emotional stimuli as causes of illness; 3 Reinhard Hanko: Dissoziativismus. A genealogical epistemology.

Each edition of the first cohort contained, usually on the last four pages of an edited Mynona Supplement satirical, parodic or " humorous " content with an appropriate title, such as: Ogre ( # 4 ), The Pop-Eye ( 5), The selfless mummy ( 10) The skew Tiger ( 13) The lean Milky Way (14) The phi- drover (17). A leaf of humor and satire: Since 1923, the Addendum The Komplizissimus appeared. Edited by Willy citizens with the assistance of " Mynona ".

The only one had at the beginning of a strong attraction to the bohemian anarchism and should, according to HG helmet, his " excellent grandstand for the Berlin literati from the vicinity of the café ' megalomania ' have been a".

In only literary contributions to the individualist anarchism in a broad sense have been published. In the double issue 27/28 (1 November 1919) a call for self-help appeared with the note that the editors have joined forces with others to form a club. The aim of the association was entirely in keeping with Stirner that the individual person, the egoist, (ie The only one ) at this club form its own individual characteristics and beliefs must not give up, but she could make the club available. In addition, the club wanted, spread by the magazine The only one the ideas of Max Stirner. It was also intended to establish Personalistic schools.

Articles, texts and contributions from, among others, Iwan Bloch, Raoul Hausmann ( pseudonym: Panarchos ), Walter Mehring, Henrik Ibsen, Benedict Lachmann (pseudonym: Antibarbarus ), Paul Scheer beard were published. Correspondents abroad were: Alberto Spaini (Rome), Rudolf Grossmann (pseudonym: Pierre Ramus ), Marcel Sauvage (Paris), Louis Bunger (Denmark), Roel Houwink (Netherlands ) and others.

Anselm Ruest went to the seizure of power by the National Socialists in Germany to France, where he tried unsuccessfully in 1937, a successor magazine for The only one entitled The indignation. Bring out a magazine for Empowered.

The only one (Leipzig)

A magazine of the same title was published from 1998 to 2006 as a quarterly publication of Max Stirner - Archiv Leipzig. It was founded by Kurt W. Fleming and (at times with Bernhard Piegsa ) issued and expressly understood not to be a continuation of the 1919-1925 published sheet and wanted to keep my distance to all that Stirner defame " him or her to be instrumentalized for " attempted. You will be continued since 2008 as the "Year Book of Max Stirner Society ", again under the title The Ego.

Reprint

An almost complete facsimile edition of all back issues of The Ego was created in 1980 by Hartmut Geerken and with an afterword by him at Kraus Reprint, Munich, published as a book ( 356 pages).