Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies , 2018
Libera Pisano
Even for the anarchist, language is the rope of the law bound around his neck; even the most free philosopher thinks with the words of philosophical language.¹ Gustav Landauer (1870-1919), a German-Jewish anarchist and a radical thinker,was brutally murdered by the Freikorps in Munich. He was an almost forgotten figure for along time, even though his ideas exerted a crucial influence on the development of twentieth century Jewish thought and philosophy, particularly regarding the rehabilitation of utopian, messianic, anarchical and mystical elements. Landauer was one of very few Jewish authors permitting the word 'scepticism' to be included in the title of one of his works-namely Skepsisu nd Mystik²-in my view this very term is the fil rouge running through all his political and philosophical thought.
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