Max Stirner : "the peaceful enemy of all constraint" -- Humanity, the new Supreme Being : Stirner's summation and critique of modernity -- Ownness and modernity : the political meaning of dialectical egoism -- The political economy of modernity : Benjamin R. Tucker and the critique of the capitalist state -- Reciprocity and predation in everyday life : the egoist thought of James L. Walker -- Beyond feminism, beyond anarchism : egoism and the political thought of Dora Marsden -- Two who made an insurrection : Stirner, Nietzsche, and the revolt against modernity -- Dialectical egoism : elements of a theoretical famework.