"My grandfather, Gustav Landauer, was a writer well known in Germany. It was also very active in politics and was part of the Soviet Republic of Bavaria, after the fall of the Kaiser. When, in turn, that fell, He was taken to the police station and beat him to death. His best friend, who was also in the government, fled to Santa Fe, changed its name to B. Traven and wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. "

Mike Nichols

Philosophy and Revolution: if the Kantian question of what we know (1781) is echoed decades later at the barricades and spring peoples, mauthneriana inquiry about the limits of language (1901-1902) will result in experience before revolutionary mystique. Landauer's skepticism asks about Mauthner that spawned its own mystique, which, in turn, spawned the Soviet Republic of Bavaria (1919) ..., the skeptic will experience the mystical quest silencing Community ancestors to express the new political word for the sake of a just community.

Communities of the present and the absent (those who are gone and those to come): this is the way that invites this book, originally published in German in 1903, and now reaches the hands of the Spanish-speaking reader thanks to a splendid translation of Hector Piccoli.

Reader task will be to continue translating, that is, engendering in the lineage of a revolutionary mysticism rooted skepticism.

Silvana Rabinovich