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Title Gustav Landauer : Anarchist and Jew / edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr and Anya Mali ; in collaboration with Hanna Delf von Wolzogen
Published Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (250 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Mendes-Flohr, Paul -- Messianic Radicals: Gustav Landauer and Other German-Jewish Revolutionaries / Mendes-Flohr, Paul -- 'Poetic Anarchism' versus 'Party Anarchism': Gustav Landauer and the Anarchist Movement in Wilhelmian Germany / Linse, Ulrich -- Romantic Prophets of Utopia: Gustav Landauer and Martin Buber / Löwy, Michael -- Between Utopia and Redemption: Gustav Landauer's Influence on Gershom Scholem / Treml, Martin -- Gustav Landauer's Tragic Theater / David, Anthony -- Gustav Landauer and the Literary Trends of his Time / Cepl-Kaufmann, Gertrude -- Toward a German-Jewish Construct: Landauer's Arnold Himmelheber / Despoix, Philippe -- Gustav Landauer's Early Novella Geschwister: Dying to Communicate / Kaiser, Corinna R. -- Gustav Landauer's Reading of Spinoza / von Wolzogen, Hanna Delf -- Gustav Landauer and Gerhard Scholem: Anarchy and Utopia / Schwartz, Yossef -- Ina Britschgi-Schimmer: Co-Editor of Gustav Landauer's Letters / von Wolzogen, Wolf -- Gustav Landauer and his Judaism / Seeligmann, Chaim -- Der werdende Mensch und der werdende Jude: Gustav Landauer's Development as a Human Being and Jew / Simon, Ernst -- My Father, Gustav Landauer / Hausberger, Brigitte -- Index -- Contributors
Summary For Gustav Landauer, literary critic and anarchist, scholar of mysticism and participant of the Bavarian revolution, culture and politics occupied the same spiritual space. While identifying with ethical socialism, his Jewish sensibility increasingly gained over the years, not only, but in great measure due to Buber's influence. This volume assesses Landauer's literary and political activities, paying particular attention to his impact on Buber
Notes Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 13, 2015)
Subject Landauer, Gustav, 1870-1919.
SUBJECT Landauer, Gustav, 1870-1919. fast (OCoLC)fst00142679
Subject Jews -- Germany -- Biography
Anarchism -- History
Anarchism.
Jews.
Germany.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Mendes-Flohr, Paul R., editor
Mali, Anya, editor
Delf von Wolzogen, Hanna, contributor
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