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Encyclopedia > The Egoist (periodical)

The Egoist was a London literary magazine published from 1914 to 1919, during which time it published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce. It was founded by Dora Marsden, a successor to her The New Freewoman. The subtitle was An Individualist Review. Image File history File linksMetadata Egoist1914_72. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Egoist1914_72. ... A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. ... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish name Séamas Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... Dora Marsden (5 March 1882 – 13 December 1960) was an English feminist activist, an editor of avant-garde literary journals, and an author of philosophical writings. ... The New Freewoman was a monthly London literary magazine owned by Dora Marsden and edited by Harriet Shaw Weaver. ...


Marsden was the editor in the first half of 1914, when it was a fortnightly. For most of its life it was a monthly. Editorship was then taken over by Harriet Shaw Weaver. Assistant editors were Richard Aldington and Leonard A. Compton-Rickett, with H. D.. When Aldington left in 1917 for the Army, his place was taken by T. S. Eliot. Harriet Shaw Weaver, 1876 - 1961, was the patron of James Joyce. ... Richard Aldington (July 8, 1892 – July 27, 1962) was an English writer and poet. ... H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961), better known by the pen name H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ... T.S. Eliot (by E.O. Hoppe, 1919) Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an American-born poet, dramatist, and literary critic, whose works, such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets, are considered defining achievements of twentieth...


References

  • Julian Symons, Makers of the New: The Revolution in Literature, 1912–1939, Andre Deutsch, 1987, ISBN 0233980075

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The Non-Economic Debates In Liberty (5753 words)
The egoists contended that instead of destroying rights, they were reducing the concept to its proper place as an extremely useful, artificial construct with which to organize society.
The egoists acted as a counter to an idea that was growing in popularity and which had disastrous consequences for individualism: it was the idea of society as an organism, different from and superior to the individuals who comprised it.
The egoists ridiculed Spencer's organismic theory of society as "the logic of the crowd" as opposed to the logic of the individual.
Max Stirner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3051 words)
The notion that one's own interest (or one's own nature) is a calling to which one is beholden (or "ought to follow" in any moral or imperative sense) is, strictly speaking, contrary to Stirner's tenets.
However, he may be understood as a rational egoist in the sense that he apparently considered it irrational not to act in one's self interest.
His later writings would uphold a view opposed to Stirner, a trajectory mirrored by the composer Richard Wagner.
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