JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE INDIVIDUALISM: MAX STIRNER AND LOUIS-FERDINAND SELIN

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the research of the ideas of Max Stirner and Louis-Ferdinand Selin in the context of the development of the logic of individualism. The author defines the space of the commonality for Stirner and Selin as the acceptance of the position of an empirical subject whose ethical strategy is selfishness. The key problem is a correlation between the Unity (the One) and the Plural. The next step is to identify the conceptual differences between the authors mentioned: the orientation of the Only One to self-gratification and the Selin’s inevitable collision with the Other, selfishness as a philosophical doctrine and selfishness as a situational choice, as well as Stirner’s political non-involvement and Selin’s political mimicry. The article highlights the possibility of the development of individualistic logic through its way beyond the boundaries of philosophy to other cultural spheres, by the example of the movement from Stirner’s teachings to the artistic prose of Selin.