By Charles Haywood Ernst Jünger was one of the more fascinating men of the twentieth century. Remembered in the English-speaking world primarily for his World War I memoir, The Storm of Steel, he was famous in Europe for a range of right-leaning thought spanning nearly eighty years (he lived from 1896 to 1998). His output was prodigious, more than fifty books along with voluminous...
I discovered this podcast reading of The Forest Passage on a website new to me: Immediatism: Essays provocative and incendiary. The site offers almost 500 podcasts on a variety of topics from Anarchism to Post-Left to Technology and many other categories of alternative world views. The original reading was divided up into nine podcasts, including the translator’s introduction and a formal...
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...
(Photo by: Bildagentur-online/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) FEBRUARY 11, 2020 ROD DREHER After I gave my speech last week in Rome, someone came up to me and said, “You have to read The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger.” I wish I could remember who told me that, but I do remember that they were emphatic. So I ordered it on my Kindle that night from my hotel room, and read it on the flight...
Eumeswil Taken from The Worthy House on January 21, 2019, written by Charles Ernst Jünger’s Eumeswil (Telos Press, 2015), 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...
The Forest Passage Taken from The Worthy House on October 13, 2018, written by Charles Ernst Jünger was one of the more fascinating men of the twentieth century. Remembered in the English-speaking world primarily for his World War I memoir, The Storm of Steel, he was famous in Europe for a range of right-leaning thought spanning nearly eighty years (he lived from 1896 to 1998). His output was...
by Tobias J. Lanz This review of The Forest Passage appeared in the Summer 2014 issue of Modern Age. Download PDF version here. This is a book about freedom. It was first published in 1951 as a response to the Nazi experience and the perceived threat of Soviet expansion. Its explicit focus was resistance to the totalitarian state. Yet its implicit focus is resistance to all forms of social...
The Forest Passage is available from Telos (and other major booksellers) as of today. Here are some comments from the Telos site on the book: Ernst Jünger’s The Forest Passage explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent thinker can withstand and oppose the power of the omnipresent state. No matter how extensive the technologies of surveillance become, the forest...
Another short excerpt from the forthcoming publication of “The Forest Passage” by Ernst Jünger, naturally with the permission of the publisher Telos Press. It will be available from Telos sometime in December – stay tuned! (… from Chapter 31) “As we see, predicaments arise that demand an immediate moral decision, and this is most true where the vortex is deepest and...
Looking forward to the publication of this first translation of Ernst Jünger’s Der Waldgang from Telos Press in December! Until then the cover image also provides food for thought. Visually, I find it original and eye-catching. More importantly, it communicates in a nicely condensed form much of what Jünger has to say in the text; any reader ripe for the author’s message...
I am thrilled to spread the news today from Telos Press that Der Waldgang will soon be available in English under the title The Forest Passage. Last year Telos also published The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios and are thus apparently intent on becoming the new publisher of Jünger’s books in English. On behalf of all those who have been starving over the last decade for new...
UPDATE 18 AUG/11 Zwei neue Rezension zum Hörbuch “Der Waldgang” sind letztlich erschienen (danke Tobias Wimbauer): “Fränkischen Nachrichten” 15. August 2011, S. 23: Hörbuch1951 veröffentlichte Ernst Jünger den kulturpessimistischen Essay „Der Waldgang“. Jünger entwarf darin das Bild eines übermächtigen Staates – das kann sowohl ein diktatorischer Staat als auch die moderne...
