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"At the turn of the 20th century Paris was the epicenter of a cultural revolution, and anarchist philosopher, activist, and poet André Colomer (1886-1931) was one of its most recognized participants--as historian Richard Sonn described him in Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France (Penn State, 2010), "the nearest thing interwar anarchism had to a star." A public figure allied with the avant-garde Cubists, Futurists, Symbolists, Surrealists, and Communist theorists, he had a journalistically punchy writing style and was credited for developing an influential new theory of anarchist individualism, action d'art. His work, never translated into English (but still in print in France and Spain), remains relevant to the contemporary anarchist movement in its anticipation of postanarchism and its philosophical integration of aesthetics, activism, and individualism. This anthology of writings from all eras of his life reintroduces Colomer to activists, historians, political theorists, and philosophers and represents the first translation and publication of his work since his untimely death from cancer at the age of 45. It will fill a major lacuna in the historical relationships among the anarchist movement and the avant-garde while at the same time reintroducing a key theorist whose intellectual scope was profoundly interdisciplinary, encompassing drama, poetry, aesthetics, philosophy, and music"--
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