The Egoist and the Devil

Stirner refers to selfishness, otherness, isolation, privacy, and rebellion as particularly important qualities that are derided by modernism. He identifies the “egoist” and the “devil” as labels that modernist ideologies frequently use to differentiate the “un-human” from the “human” valued by modernism....

Stirner’s third use of the “un-human” is probably the most significant. It is the basis of his negation or rejection of humanity and society. He clearly uses the term to refer to the conscious deviance, profanity, and rebellious dimension of individuals.

--John F. Welsh, Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010), 91.