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1. Jan. 2000 · The self-proclaimed 'philosophical anarchist,' Albert Jay Nock, thought he was so superfluous to the society around him that he titled his 1943 autobiography, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man. He felt utterly out of step with the twentieth century. Born in 1870, he witnessed the severe societal changes resulting from world wars, revolutions in ideology, and the consequences of political measures
If one does not find himself essential or integral, then he must conclude he is superfluous. In Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943, Chapter Five, pages 85-95), AJN appraises the system of public education in America. Within this appraisal he makes the distinction between an educable person and a trainable, but fundamentally ignorant, person. He….
11. Apr. 2022 · Memoirs of a Superfluous Man. Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of society, state, economy, and culture, and does so almost inadvertently.
The Society’s original announcement. Three admirers of the late Albert Jay Nock met for lunch early in 1963 — a doctor, a businessman, and a clergyman. Individually, each had found his own way to AJN, and felt an affinity for Nock’s ideals as well as Nock’s nonpushy approach to the idea business. A common interest in AJN had brought ...
Correspondence and writings of Albert Jay Nock, author and editor. Also included are writings and correspondence about Nock (mainly materials collected by Robert Crunden for his book on Nock, The Mind and Art of Albert Jay Nock, Chicago, 1964), and materials concerning Ruth Robinson, a close friend of Nock; in fact, the larger part of the collection consists of correspondence between Nock and ...
by Albert Jay Nock. This collection is the first chosen from Albert Jay Nock’s entire work and the first new collection in nearly thirty-five years. It includes his best-known essays, some outstanding but neglected articles, and previously unpublished material.
Albert Jay Nock was one of the most thoroughgoing critics of using “political means” to achieve social ends in the American literary tradition. Libertarians have embraced Nock’s often virulent antistatism, but his possession of the traits he ascribed to Jefferson—“radical principles and ideals combined with Tory manners”—have made Nock’s contributions broader and more far ...
