New book on egoism, and a question about Nietzsche and Stirner

[Svein Olav Nyberg]

At 01:23 -0800 25-11-10, Daniel Davis wrote:
>Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation by John F. Welsh
>
>From amazon, the description says:
>Welsh also takes great care to dissociate Stirner's thought from that of the
>other great egoist critic of modernity, Friedrich Nietzsche.

He also looks at Tucker, Marsden and "Kak Tak". The book is the best 
on Stirner so far, btw.

>Why do people consider Nietzsche an egoist?
>For some, I'd guess it's just a word

Nietzsche has at some point praised egoism, and that being such a 
rare thing, he's included among its proponents.
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