Bradshaw, Wayne (2024) From The Freewoman to The Egoist: Max Stirner’s Reception in English Modernism. In: European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. p. 28. From: EAM 2024: The Avant-Garde and War, 17 - 19 September 2024, Kraków, Poland.

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Ezra Pound’s essay, “The Serious Artist,” published in The New Freewoman in October 1913, provides the entry point into an important conflict between Dora Marsden and Pound about the relationship between art and the individual. In the light of an ongoing dispute between Marsden and the anarchist publisher, Benjamin Tucker, the disagreement between Marsden and Pound reveals the limitations of Marsden’s interpretations of egoism and the nature of Pound’s incorporation of Stirner’s philosophy into his own approach to the role of the individual artist. The conflict also had important implications for the future of Marsden’s journal and, by extension, the development of English modernism. This paper proposes that, through The Egoist, English modernism owed a conceptual debt to Stirner’s egoism in much the same way it was indebted to the work of Bergson and William James.

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