A Reflection on Mystical Anarchism in the Works of Gustav Landauer^225presence that becomes manifest in the experience of unrest and the desire
to know...” Anamnesis (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989),
32f. Landauer speaks of an “eternal source.” See, for example, “Through
Separation to Community”, in Revolution and Other Writings: A
Political Reader, ed. Gabriel Kuhn (Oakland: PM Press, 2010), 106.
- Gustav Landauer, “Zum Beilis Prozess”, in Der werdende Mensch,
Aufsätze über Leben und Schrifttum, ed. Martin Buber (Weimar:
Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag 1921), 33. - Voegelin commonly uses the word “cosmos” to refer to the whole
of ordered reality, including animate and inanimate nature and the
gods. Eugene Webb, Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of History (Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1981), 279. - Paul Avrich, Anarchist Portraits (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1988), 248. - Kuhn and Wolf cite a letter sent by Landauer to Margarethe Faas-
Hardegger in 1908, concerning the description of the Sozialist’s ed-
itors’ collective: “You can choose any of the following: ‘Socialist-
Anarchists’ (my favourite), ‘Socialists’, ‘Anarchists’ or simply
‘Comrades.’” In Revolution and Other Writings : A Political Reader
(Oakland: PM Press, 2010), 32. - According to Kuhn and Wolf several Landauer scholars refer to his
ideas as Antipolitik, to Landauer as Anti-Politiker. Landauer began
to refer to himself as such during the late 1890s with reference to
Friedrich Nietzsche’s critique of politics in Ecce Homo. In Revolution
and Other Writings: A Political Reader (Oakland: PM Press, 2010), - In 2010, Wolf edited two volumes entitled Antipolitik, a collection
of newspaper articles, speeches, letters and essays dealing with the
theme. Gustav Landauer, Antipolitik: Gustav Landauer, Ausgewählte
Schriften, Band 3.1 (and 3.2.), ed. Siegbert Wolf (Lich/Hessen: Verlag
Edition AV, 2010). - Buber is frequently cited by Voegelin, in particular his biblical stud-
ies. See, for example, Israel and Revelation (Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, 2001). - After Landauer’s death, Buber edited his articles into the books
Der werdende Mensch (1921), Beginner (1924), Gustav Landauer,
sein Lebensgang in Briefen (1929).