Overcoming the preachers of death: Gustav Landauer's reading of Friedrich Nietzsche
@article{Miething2016OvercomingTP, title={Overcoming the preachers of death: Gustav Landauer's reading of Friedrich Nietzsche}, author={Dominique Miething}, journal={Intellectual History Review}, year={2016}, volume={26}, pages={285 - 304} }
Over the past 80 years, the German anarchist Gustav Landauer’s (1870-1919) reading of Nietzsche’s philosophy has been assessed in a number of different ways. Two voices at each end of this timespan should make us aware of its significance. First, there is Max Nettlau (1865–1944), who, in his time, was the most knowledgeable historian of anarchism. Looking back from the 1930s to the turn of the century, when the Übermensch and similar ideas were in vogue and felt most acutely both inside and…
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