God and the State
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God and the State is a seminal anarchist and atheist treatise by Mikhail Bakunin that critiques religion and the state as instruments of oppression and argues for human freedom and rationalism.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
anarchist literature
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atheist literature → book → political treatise → |
| advocates |
abolition of the state
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anti-theism → human freedom → rationalism → separation of church and state → |
| author |
Mikhail Bakunin
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| centralTheme |
conflict between authority and liberty
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critique of divine authority → emancipation through reason → religion as an instrument of oppression → the state as an instrument of oppression → |
| countryOfOrigin |
Russian Empire
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| criticizes |
Christianity
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authoritarianism → religion → statism → the Church → the state → theocracy → |
| firstPublishedInLanguage |
French
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| genre |
anarchism
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anti-clericalism → atheism → political philosophy → social criticism → |
| incompleteWork |
true
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| influenced |
anarchist movement
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anti-clerical movements → secularist thought → |
| influencedBy |
Enlightenment rationalism
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French materialism → Ludwig Feuerbach → |
| languageOfTitle |
English
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| movement |
classical anarchism
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| notableFor |
systematic critique of religion and the state from an anarchist perspective
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| originalLanguage |
French
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| originalTitle |
Dieu et l'État
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| philosophicalPosition |
collectivist anarchism
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materialism → rationalism → |
| publicationStatus |
posthumous
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| publicationYear |
1882
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| title |
God and the State
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| writtenYear |
1871
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1872 → |
Referenced by (3)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Mikhail Bakunin
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notableWork |
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Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis
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relatedWork |
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God and the State
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