Stirner famously writes in The Unique And Its Properties, his first line and his last line, that he bases his affair (his life or his cause) on nothing.
He argues and many supporters of his from the anarchist community defend him, but denying that he is a nihilist but instead the nothingness that is personal consciousness is a creative nothing, not pure emptiness.
I am not entirely persuaded. Yes, the concrete subject self, without conceptual brackets or guiding abstractions to serve, can be an ever evolving, creating nothing, a wonder to be sure.
There is also the nihilism aspect of nothing that is Stirner: the lack of values, the lack of structure, the loss of meaning, the rejection of the existence of love and God and how they factor into the human existence and coping with the burden of existing.
Stirner has a lot of explaining to do.
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