Essays in Anarchism and Religion

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A Reflection on Mystical Anarchism in the Works of Gustav Landauer^229


  1. Eric Voegelin, Hitler and the Germans (Columbia: University of
    Missouri Press 2003), 108.

  2. ibid.

  3. ibid, 58.

  4. Gustav Landauer, “Through Separation to Community” in
    Revolution and Other Writings (Oakland: PM Press, 2010), 100.

  5. This non-linguistic, non rational experience will be explained in
    further detail in the next section.

  6. Gustav Landuer, “Through Separation to Community” in
    Revolution and Other Writings (Oakland: PM Press, 2010), 99.

  7. ibid, 100.

  8. As in Voegelin, “symbol” refers to the expression of the experi-
    ence of being, which, because it contains non-rational and non-lin-
    guistic elements, can only be metaphorical and open.

  9. This will also be explained in more detail in the next section.

  10. ibid, “Revolution”, 136f.

  11. Gustav Landauer, “Call to Socialism”, http://theanarchistlibrary.
    org/library/gustav-landauer-call-to-socialism, 24.

  12. ibid.

  13. Gustav Landauer, “Vom geistigen Privileg”, in Antipolitik. 3.1,
    ed. Siegbert Wolf (Lich/Hessen: Verlag Edition AV, 2010), 89.

  14. Eugene Lunn, Prophet of Community, The Romantic Socialism
    of Gustav Landauer (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973),

  15. Landauer distinguishes between Gemeinschaft (community),
    possible only when people come together freely through spirit, and
    Gesellschaft (society), a mechanistic sum of individuals that occurs
    within the state.

  16. Gustav Landauer, “Volk und Land. Dreissig sozialistische
    Thesen”, in Antipolitik. 3.1, ed. Siegbert Wolf (Lich/Hessen: Verlag
    Edition AV, 2010), 117.

  17. Gustav Landauer, “Anarchic Thoughts on Anarchism,” in
    Revolution and other Writings, ed. Gabriel Kuhn (Oakland: PM
    Press, 2010), 91.

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