Gustav Landauer’s Tragic Theater

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Abbreviations VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Messianic Radicals: Gustav Landauer and Other German-Jewish Revolutionaries 14
6. ‘Poetic Anarchism’ versus ‘Party Anarchism’: Gustav Landauer and the Anarchist Movement in Wilhelmian Germany 45
7. Romantic Prophets of Utopia: Gustav Landauer and Martin Buber 64
8. Between Utopia and Redemption: Gustav Landauer’s Influence on Gershom Scholem 82
9. Gustav Landauer’s Tragic Theater 92
10. Gustav Landauer and the Literary Trends of his Time 107
11. Toward a German-Jewish Construct: Landauer’s Arnold Himmelheber 121
12. Gustav Landauer’s Early Novella Geschwister: Dying to Communicate 132
13. Gustav Landauer’s Reading of Spinoza 155
14. Gustav Landauer and Gerhard Scholem: Anarchy and Utopia 172
15. Ina Britschgi-Schimmer: Co-Editor of Gustav Landauer’s Letters 191
16. Gustav Landauer and his Judaism 205
17. Der werdende Mensch und der werdende Jude: Gustav Landauer’s Development as a Human Being and Jew 213
18. My Father, Gustav Landauer 233
19. Index 238
20. Contributors 241