God and the State
The cover of the first print in 1882. | |
| Author | Mikhail Bakunin |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dieu et l'état |
| Translator | Carlo Cafiero and Élisée Reclus |
| Language | English, translated from French |
| Genre | Politics |
| Publisher | Dover |
Publication date | 1882 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1883 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 89 p. (Dover Paperback Edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-486-22483-1 (Dover Paperback Edition) |
| OCLC | 192839 |
| 335/.83 19 | |
| LC Class | HX833 .B313 1970 |
| Preceded by | Founding of the First International |
| Followed by | The Immorality of the State |
God and the State (called by its author The Historical Sophisms of the Doctrinaire School of Communism) is an unfinished manuscript by the Russian anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin, published posthumously in 1882. The work criticises Christianity and the then-burgeoning technocracy movement from a materialist, anarchist and individualist perspective.
Publication
God and the State was written in February and March 1871. It was originally written as Part II of a greater work that was going to be called The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution.[1]
The first issue of The Anarchist, published in 1885 in London by Henry Seymour, held an announcement of a translation into English by Marie Le Compte.[2] The International Publishing Company announced that the profits would go to the Red Cross of the Russian Revolutionary Party.[3]
See also
- Anarchism and religion
- Anarchism in Russia
- Criticism of Christianity
- Criticism of Marxism
- List of books about anarchism
References
- ^ Leier, Mark (2006). Bakunin: The Creative Passion. Seven Stories Press. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-58322-894-4.
- ^ "On Picket Duty". Liberty (Not the Daughter But the Mother of Order). 1885-04-11. p. 47. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
- ^ An English anarchist (1885). The Criminal law amendment act. p. back cover. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
Further reading
- Arefiev, Mikhail A.; Davydenkova, Antonina G. (2019). "The atheism in the worldview of Karl Marx and antitheologism in anarchocollektivism of M. A. Bakunin". Вестник СПбГУ. Философия и конфликтология. 35 (1): 186–193. doi:10.21638/spbu17.2019.115.
- Flohr, Mikkel (2023). "Political Atheism: Towards a Profane Reconceptualization of the Modern State". In Dean, Mitchell; List, Lotte; Schwarzkopf, Stefan (eds.). Political Theology Today: 100 Years after Carl Schmitt. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 45–59. ISBN 9781350344525.
- Flohr, Mikkel (2025). "Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions". Theory, Culture & Society. 42 (4): 43–59. doi:10.1177/02632764241311250.
- Harris, Ronald A. (2016). "Can States Exist Without Gods?". The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society. 6 (3): 29–40. doi:10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v06i03/29-40. ISSN 2154-8641.
- Huttunen, Niko Ilari (2020). "Eschatological Prophet as Political Realist: Paul, Nations, and the State". In Creemers, Jelle; Link-Wieczorek, Ulrike (eds.). On Nations and the Churches: Ecumenical Responses to Nationalisms and Migration. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. pp. 40–53. ISBN 978-3-374-06673-5.
- Job, Sebastian (2016). "Bakunin and the Entheogenic Challenge to Atheism". Anarchist Studies. 24 (2): 83–105. ISSN 0967-3393.
- Karatas, Nazan Coskun (2018). "Mickail Bakunin, Two Bases of Alienation: God and State" (PDF). Context: Review for Comparative Literature and Cultural Research. 18: 73–81. ISSN 1857-7377.
- Knowles, Rob (2002). ""Human Light": The Mystical Religion of Mikhail Bakunin". The European Legacy. 7 (1): 7–24. doi:10.1080/10848770120114547. ISSN 1470-1316.
- Langford, Peter (2014). "Hans Kelsen's God and The State: The Theory of Positive Law as methodological Anarchism". Soft Power. 1 (2): 149–168. ISSN 2539-2239.
- Moltmann, Jürgen (2021). "Terrorism and Political Theology". In Bodrov, Alexei; Garrett, Stephen M. (eds.). Theology and the Political: Theo-political Reflections on Contemporary Politics in Ecumenical Conversation (PDF). Brill. pp. 95–105. doi:10.1163/9789004440746_007. ISBN 978-90-04-43174-4.
- Ringmar, Erik (2021). "Anarchism and religion". In Haynes, Jeffrey (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Politics and Ideology. Routledge. ISBN 9780367816230.
- Tremlett, Paul-François (2004). "On the formation and function of the category "religion" in anarchist writing". Culture and Religion. 5 (3): 367–381. doi:10.1080/0143830042000294424.
- van der Zweerde, Evert (2024). "Give to God's Kingdom What is God's Kingdom's - Political Theologies in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia". In Grigore, M. D.; Makrides, V. (eds.). Orthodoxy in the Agora; Orthodox Christian Political Theologies Across History. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 151–168. ISBN 9783525302569.
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