Prophet of Community: The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer

Gustav Landauer—literary critic, mystical philosopher, and left-wing activists—was Germany's major anarchist thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. In this full-scale intellectual biography, Lunn depicts the evolution of Landauer's social thought, a rich terrain within which to examine afresh some intellectual crosscurrents of the Wilhelmian era.

Landauer's work in the various circles and movements of his social milieu after 1900, including anarchist, youth movement, expressioni...