He criticized a rival for merely transferring man's essence from God to inside man himself, rather than eliminating the idea of essence altogether, in his attack on Feuerbach.
This thinker argued that the only true property is self-possession, which can only be obtained through self-enjoyment or Selbstgenuss. He is not Russian, but Benjamin Tucker translated this thinker's major work into English and was a proponent of his philosophy. This philosopher claimed that to be unique or einzig is synonymous with existence. He criticized a rival for merely transferring man's essence from God to inside man himself, rather than eliminating the idea of essence altogether, in his attack on Feuerbach. Besides Feuerbach and Bruno Bauer, he is the third target of Volume I of (*) Marx's The German Ideology. He railed against "humanists" and "realists" for teaching knowledge rather than self-knowledge in his The False Principle of Our Education. His most famous work claims than humans go through "realistic" and "idealistic" stages before reaching the title stage. For 10 points, name this German proto-anarchist philosopher of The Ego and Its Own.
This thinker argued that the only true property is self-possession, which can only be obtained through self-enjoyment or Selbstgenuss.
Max Stirner [or Joseph Kaspar Schmidt]  