Book Launch: Skepsis and Antipolitics: The Alternative of Gustav Landauer

Cedric Cohen-Skalli and Libera Pisano (eds.) Skepsis and Antipolitics: The Alternative of Gustav Landauer. Boston, Leiden: Brill, 2022

Gustav Landauer was an unconventional anarchist who aspired to a return to a communal life. His antipolitical rejection of authoritarian assumptions is based on a radical linguistic scepticism that could be considered the theoretical premise of his anarchism. The present volume aims to add to the existing scholarship on Landauer by shedding new light on his work, focussing on the two interrelated notions of skepsis and antipolitics. In a time marked by a deep doubt concerning modern politics, Landauer’s alternative can help us to more seriously address the struggle for a different articulation of our communitarian and ecological needs.

Participants

Cedric Cohen-Skalli (University of Haifa)
Liliana Feierstein (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Paul Mendes-Flohr (University of Chicago/HU Jerusalem) Libera Pisano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) Galili Shahar (Tel Aviv University)
Giuseppe Veltri (Universität Hamburg)
Sarah Wobick-Segev (Universität Hamburg)

Date: Wednesday, 19 April 2023, 18:00 via Zoom (Online). Please contact MCAS for registration and further information. Mail: maimonides-centre@uni-hamburg.de