Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Principal events in Stimer's life
- Further reading
- Note on the translation
- The Ego and Its Own
- First Part: MAN
- Second Part: I
- Biographical and other notes on the text
- Index of subjects
- Index of proper names
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Second Part: I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Principal events in Stimer's life
- Further reading
- Note on the translation
- The Ego and Its Own
- First Part: MAN
- Second Part: I
- Biographical and other notes on the text
- Index of subjects
- Index of proper names
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Summary
At the entrance of the modern time stands the ‘God-man’. At its exit will only the God in the God-man evaporate? And can the God-man really die if only the God in him dies? They did not think of this question, and thought they were finished when in our days they brought to a victorious end the work of the Enlightenment, the van-quishing of God: they did not notice that man has killed God in order to become now – ‘sole God on high’. The other world outside us is indeed brushed away, and the great undertaking of the men of the Enlightenment completed; but the other world in us has become a new heaven and calls us forth to renewed heaven-storming: God has had to give place, yet not to us, but to – man. How can you believe that the God-man is dead before the man in him, besides the God, is dead?
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- Stirner: The Ego and its Own , pp. 137 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995