Max Stirner - Nihilism + Anarchism

Max Stirner

Johann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856), better known as Max Stirner, was a German philosopher. He is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, postmodernism, and anarchism, specially of individualist anarchism. 

Stirner's main work is The Ego and Its Own, also known as The Ego and His Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in German, which translates literally as The Unique One and His Property).

Egoism

Stirner argues that the concept of the self is something impossible to fully comprehend; a so-called 'creative nothing' he described as an "end-point of language".

Individual self-realization rests on each individual's desire to fulfill their egoism. The difference between an unwilling and a willing egoist.

However, he may be understood as a rational egoist in the sense that he considered it irrational not to act in one's self-interest. 

Only when one realizes that all sacred truths such as law, right, morality,religion etc., are nothing other than artificial concepts, and not to be obeyed, can one act freely.

To Stirner power is the method of egoism. It is the only justified method of gaining 'property'.

Anarchism

Stirner proposes that most commonly accepted social institutions – including the notion of State, property as a right, natural rights in general, and the very notion of society – were mere illusions or ghosts in the mind, saying of society that "the individuals are its reality." Stirner wants to "abolish not only the state but also society as an institution responsible for its members."