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August 3, 2023

“Passaggi di confine e altri saggi di Ernst Jünger”

In Anarch, Jünger Texts

August 3, 2023

03August

Nel mese di maggio 2023 è stato stampato dall‘editore Porto Seguro (www.portoseguroeditore.it, info@portoseguroeditore.it) il libro „Passaggi di confine e altri saggi di Ernst Jünger“, che comprende oltre a Prognosi, tre testi inediti in Italia dell‘autore: Passaggi di confine, Sogni e Salti di tempo. Questi scritti sono stati tradotti e curati da Cinzia De Simone. Il libro è acquistabile sul...

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March 8, 2022

Worthy House review of Eumeswil

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March 8, 2022

08March

By Charles Haywood Ernst Jünger’s Eumeswil, one of the famous German’s last works, published when he was eighty-two years old, is often regarded as an exposition of libertarian thought. This is understandable, but completely wrong. Such a reading attempts to shoehorn concepts in which Jünger had little interest, or toward which he was actively hostile, into an exploration of unrelated themes...

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April 7, 2021

The Essential Anarch: quotes on the anarch from Eumeswil

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April 7, 2021

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07April

As an aid to anyone aspiring to live as an anarch in the sense developed in Ernst Jünger’s novel, Eumeswil, through the character of its protagonist, Manuel, I have compiled a complete collection of all quotations from the book that elaborate on this critical Jüngerian theme. However impossible such a choice may seem given all the unique ideas Jünger has given us, I do find the concept of...

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November 24, 2020

Eumeswil and Jünger’s Anarch – with Russell Berman

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November 24, 2020

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24November

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January 27, 2020

Various/verschiedene Ernst Jünger videos

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January 27, 2020

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27January

After creating the English subtitles for the new ARTE/rbb documentary on Jünger, I spent some time reuploading some of the older documentaries and discussions already on my channel, but in unified and not split form. Nachdem ich die englischen Untertitel für die neue ARTE / rbb-Dokumentation auf Jünger erstellt hatte, habe ich einige Zeit damit verbracht, die älteren Dokumentarfilme und...

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August 7, 2015

EUMESWIL again available! From Sept 1, 2015

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August 7, 2015

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07August

Telos Press has just announced their newest Ernst Jünger publication: a republication of Eumeswil in the superb original Neugroschel translation!! This is, in my opinion, their most important contribution yet to the dissemination of an author so under- and misread in the Anglo-Saxon world. For years now the original Marsilio publication (Eridanos Library, 1993) has been unavailable, or at least...

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April 25, 2012

Ernst Jünger’s “On the Marble Cliffs” as a parable of staying true to yourself

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April 25, 2012

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25April

From Politosophia, a Russian website I stumbled upon, a nice English summary of “On the Marble Cliffs”, with an original and excellent take on one important message of the book in its title – how to stay true to yourself. Thank you, Olena! 15 квітня 2012 15:03 Olena Semenyaka National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” “There are periods of decline when the pattern fades...

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February 16, 2012

“Ich hätte wie Jünger gehandelt” – Volker Schlöndorff

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February 16, 2012

16February

Interview aus “Die Welt”, 15.02.2012. Autor: Heimo Schwilk | 06:39 “Ich hätte wie Jünger gehandelt” Volker Schlöndorff über seinen Film “Das Meer am Morgen”, der die Geschichte einer Geiselerschießung zur Zeit der deutschen Besatzung in Frankreich erzählt. Als Volker Schlöndorffs Film “Das Meer am Morgen” erstmals beim Filmfestival in Biarritz...

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December 21, 2010

All Things are Nothing to Me *

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December 21, 2010

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21December

Quoted from Eumeswil, regarding Max Stirner’s concept of “Der Einziger”: “Now just what are the cardinal points or the axioms of Stirner’s system, if one cares to call it that? There are only two, but they suffice for thorough reflection: 1. That is not My business. 2. Nothing is more important than I.” For any readers able to transcend the usual reaction to...

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December 18, 2010

ZEIT interview with Ernst Jünger in 1989

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December 18, 2010

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18December

The following is my unofficial translation of an interview with Ernst Jünger that appeared in ZEIT magazine in 1989. The interviewer is André Müller. A friendship developed from my original working contact with Ernst Jünger, whom I interviewed for ZEIT on November 8, 1989. We corresponded and he called me at regular intervals, initially to let me know about favorable critiques or newspaper...

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May 27, 2010

“My Thing” and “God’s Thing”

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May 27, 2010

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27May

Max Stirner’s “The Ego and its Own” (Der Einziger und sein Eigentum) was a fundamental text for Ernst Jünger´s development of the figure of the Anarch. In Eumeswil, Ernst Jünger summarizes the “cardinal points or the axioms of Stirner’s system, if one cares to call it that” as being just two – two however which “suffice for thorough...

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January 26, 2010

Secondary sources and the anarch

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January 26, 2010

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26January

“Secondary sources”: this academic convention came to mind during recent discussions on Ernst Jünger. It seems that secondary sources have different meanings to different people. Why this is so relates directly to the anarchic quality in that person – or its absence. In the common sense, secondary sources are external authorities commenting on the intellectual productions of the...

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October 10, 2009

The anarch – a wolf, a master spy?

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October 10, 2009

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10October

It occurs to me that one could explain and differentiate the Anarch and the Waldgänger with at least a couple of analogies …. One could bring the old Biblical expression “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” to bear on the Anarch, who appears to be like the masses around him but underneath is not at all. He can be social but he is not socialized. Unlike the socialized beings around...

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May 30, 2009

Apoliteia

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May 30, 2009

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30May

Through much of my last rereading of Julius Evola’s “Ride the Tiger” I have not been able to overlook spiritual and practical parallels of Evola’s ‘differentiated’ type of man to Jünger’s anarch. These become so obvious in the chapter “States and Parties: Apoliteia”, that I must comment. Both Evola’s differentiated man and the anarch have recognised the unworthiness of the ideas, motives and...

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March 11, 2009

An anarch stands on his own two feet

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March 11, 2009

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11March

Here in Eumeswil, it seems as if the system occasionally falls asleep and the city begins to dream. The ship founders on a sandbank and then gets back afloat. Electric power stops; after a while, the machines start up again. During such recessions, the anarch measures his own strength and autonomy.” Eumeswil, page 195 COMMENTARY Noticing that I am finding a peculiarly positive prospect in all the...

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