Editing Egoism (section)

=== Other theoreticians ===
* [[Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevskii]],<ref name=":12" /> a Russian literary critic and philosopher of nihilism and rational egoism
* [[Aleister Crowley]],<ref>{{cite journal |title=Aleister Crowley on Drugs |first=Christopher Hugh |last=Partridge |year=2017 |publisher=Equinox Publishing Ltd. |journal=International Journal for the Study of New Religions |volume=7 |number=2 |pages=125–151 |issn=2041-9511 |doi=10.1558/ijsnr.v7i2.31941 |url=https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/84818/1/Crowley_on_Drugs.pdf}}</ref> who popularized the expression "[[Do what thou wilt]]"
* [[Arthur Desmond]] as Ragnar Redbeard (possibly, unproved)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Arthur Desmond in Explanation {{!}} Ragnar Redbeard |url=https://www.ragnarredbeard.com/arthur-desmond-in-explanation |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=www.ragnarredbeard.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Hobbes]],<ref name=":9">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Psychological Egoism |encyclopedia=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |first=Joshua |last=May |url=https://iep.utm.edu/psychego/}}</ref> who is attributed as an early proponent of psychological egoism
* [[John Henry Mackay]], a British-German egoist anarchist
* [[Bernard de Mandeville]],<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Bernard Mandeville (1670—1733) |encyclopedia=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |first1=Phyllis |last1=Vandenberg |first2=Abigail |last2=DeHart |url=https://iep.utm.edu/mandevil/}}</ref> whose materialism has been retroactively described as form of egoism
* [[Friedrich Nietzsche]],<ref name="Hicks">{{cite journal |last=Hicks |first=Stephen R. C. |author-link=Stephen Hicks |year=2009 |title=Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand |journal=The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies |publisher=[[Penn State University Press]] |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=249–291 |doi=10.5325/jaynrandstud.10.2.0249 |jstor=41560389 |s2cid=30410740}}</ref> whose concept of [[will to power]] has both descriptive and prescriptive interpretations<ref name=":3" />
* [[Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev]],<ref name=":11" /> a Russian literary critic and philosopher of nihilism and rational egoism
* [[Ayn Rand]],<ref name="Hicks"/> who supported an egoistic model of [[capitalist]] self-incentive and [[selfishness]]<ref name=":6" />
* [[Max Stirner]], whose views were described by John F. Welsh as "[[dialectical egoism]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation : John F. Welsh : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming |url=https://archive.org/details/JohnF.WelshMaxStirnersDialecticalEgoismANewInterpretation |access-date=2020-07-18 |website=[[Internet Archive]] |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Benjamin Tucker]], an American egoist anarchist
* [[James L. Walker]], who independently formulated an egoist philosophy before himself discovering the work of Stirner<ref>{{cite book |last=McElroy |first=Wendy |title=The Debates of Liberty |publisher=[[Lexington Books]] |year=2003 |pages=54–55}}</ref>