Abstract

Mysticism, as a radical phenomenon irreducible to religious institutionality, has been a heterodox and anti-authoritarian current that can be interpreted in political terms. In this paper, we will focus on some of the authors who have made use of this interpretation from the point of view of anarchism, and who have done so in order to rethink the very foundations of anarchist thought as such. Thus, with Reiner Schürmann, Saul Newman and Gustav Landauer and their respective approaches to the mystical tradition – and, in particular, to the speculative mysticism of Meister Eckhart – we will analyse the impact and presence of mystical thought in those re-articulations of anarchism which – taking on board the post-metaphysical turn that has marked the evolution of 20th century thought – have tried to disentangle classical anarchism from its ontological and epistemological assumptions in order to give rise to a more refined and radical understanding of anarchy.