📚 Egoism

Books with egoism on their catalogue record, first published between 1845 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject egoism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 348 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Der Einzige und sein Eigentum	Max Stirner	1845	123
	Egotism in German philosophy	George Santayana	1916	29
	The Virtue of Selfishness	Ayn Rand	1964	18
	The Art of Selfishness	David Seabury	1920	15
	Max Stirner's kleinere Schriften und Entgegnungen auf die Kritik seines Werkes	Max Stirner	1898	11
	The art of selfishness	David Seabury	1937	8
	Ego is the Enemy	Ryan Holiday	2016	8
	Tante	Anne Douglas Sedgwick	1911	7
	The Virtue of Selfishness	Ayn Rand	1964	7
	Ego psychology and the psychoses	Federn, Paul	1952	5
	Who is Ayn Rand?	Nathaniel Branden	1962	5
	Honoring the self	Nathaniel Branden	1983	5
	The evolution of cooperation	Robert M. Axelrod	1984	5
	The curse of the self	Mark R. Leary	2004	5
	Two Orientations Toward Human Nature	Rony Guldmann	2016	5
	Morality and rational self-interest	David P. Gauthier	1970	4
	Self-Love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis	Christian Maurer	2019	4
	Das Problem des egoistischen Perfektionismus in der Ethik Spinozas und Nietzsches	Georg Alex Dernoscheck	1905	3
	Egoism	Louis Wallis	1905	3
	The beloved self	Alison Hills	2010	3
	Death and the Afterlife	Samuel Scheffler	2013	3
	Egoizm narodowy wobec etyki	Zygmunt Balicki	1902	2
	The philosophy of egoism	James L. Walker	1905	2
	Slaves to duty	Badcock, John Jr	1906	2
	De l'amour de soi	Émile Faguet	1909	2
	Protagoras, Nietzsche, Stirner	Benedict Lachmann	1914	2
	The art of happiness	Sedgwick, Henry Dwight	1933	2
	Ego psychology and the psychoses	Paul Federn	1953	2
	The nihilistic egoist Max Stirner	R. W. K. Paterson	1971	2
	The philosophy of egoism	James L. Walker	1972	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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