Considered one of the brightest thinkers in fin-de-si cle Europe, Landauer believed in a form of communitarian anarchism of the head and heart, of thought and action. His desire to "turn your dreams of beauty into a desire for realization" were important ideas before World War One. The 1893 novel "Der Todesprediger" (Preacher of Death) is an introduction to Landauer's ideas. In the book, he describes the transformation of a Karl Starkblom, shadowing...