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Synopsis
The first comprehensive collection of Gustav Landauer?s writings in English, this valuable addition to the history of anarchism in the early 20th century gathers more than 40 influential works by one of Germany?s most prominent radical agitators. The readings presented here cover Landauer?s entire political biography, from his early anarchism of the 1890s and his philosophical reflections at the turn of the century to the subsequent establishment of the Socialist Bund and his tireless agitation against the coming Great War. Additional chapters on war and nationalism, the United States and Mexico, and opinion pieces and personal letters reveal the further scope of Landauer?s thinking with pieces on corporate capital, education, language, and Judaism.
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"If there were any justice in this world--at least as far as historical memory goes--then Gustav Landauer would be remembered, right along with Bakunin and Kropotkin, as one of anarchism's most brilliant and original theorists. Instead, history has abetted the crime of his murderers, burying his work in silence. With this anthology, Gabriel Kuhn has single-handedly redressed one of the cruelest gaps in Anglo-American anarchist literature: the absence of almost any English translations of Landauer." --Jesse Cohn, author of Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics "Gustav Landauer was, without doubt, one of the brightest intellectual lights within the revolutionary circles of fin de siecle Europe. In this remarkable anthology, Gabriel Kuhn brings together an extensive and splendidly chosen collection of Landauer's most important writings, presenting them for the first time in English translation. With Landauer's ideas coming of age today perhaps more than ever before, Kuhn's work is a valuable and timely piece of scholarship, and one which should be required reading for anyone with an interest in radical social change." --James Horrox, author of A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement "At once an individualist and a socialist, a Romantic and a mystic, a militant and an advocate of passive resistance - He was also the most influential German anarchist intellectual of the twentieth century." --Paul Avrich, author of Anarchist Voices
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- PublisherMerlin Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0850366712
- ISBN 13 9780850366716
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages528
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