Stirner Max - Max Stirners dialectical egoism : a new interpretation

John F. Welshis an independent scholar living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He recently retired as professor of higher education from the University of Louisville. In addition to his research activities, he taught courses in the administration and finance of higher education and mentored doctoral students through their dissertation projects.

He is the author of After Multiculturalism: The Politics of Race and the Dialectics of Liberty (2008). He has published chapters in recent books on topics including dialectical logic, ideology and education, the future of public education, innovation in information technology in higher education, how the war on terror is affecting higher education, and the dialectics of race and liberty.

Welsh has published widely in social science and higher education research journals, including the Journal of Higher Education; Race, Ethnicity and Education; Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management; Leadership and Policy in Schools; Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor; Journal of College Student Retention; Community College Review; Community College Journal of Research and Practice; Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education; Campus-Wide Information Systems; Community College Enterprise; Trusteeship; Cultural Logic; Quality Assurance in Education; Connection: The New England Journal of Higher Education; Midwest Quarterly; Humanity and Society; Free Inquiry; New Proposals; and Quarterly Journal of Ideology.

He received several teaching, research, and service awards during his academic career. In 2003, Welsh won the Red Apple Award for outstanding teaching and mentoring at the University of Louisville. He also won the award for Excellence in On-line Teaching from the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education in 2003 and 2006.

A t the outset, I cheerfully acknowledge the influence of Max Stirner, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ayn Rand on my thinking and writing. Despite their many differences, the writings of the three great individualists have informed and inspired me for over forty years. They continue to be a source of life-affirming insight. I also thank Wayne Ross, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Bob Antonio, and Sandra Mathison, each of whom encouraged and guided me as I prepared this manuscript. A big thank you goes to my friend Howard Paul Sullivan, for help in understanding German language and culture. The folks at i-Studies, the Memory Hole, and the Liberty Site deserve considerable acclaim for making very rare egoist documents broadly accessible through the Web. I thank the anonymous reviewer and Joseph Parry for helping improve the manuscript and bringing it to the form of a book. As always, I give my love and gratitude to Wendy Welsh.

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