It was not Steve Jobs and Apple who invented the iPhone4 – they only gave birth to what Ernst Jünger had intellectually conceived in 1949 in the novel Heliopolis and continued into Eumeswil (1977). By a nice coincidence, Ernst Jünger’s “universal communicator” has essentially the same name – the phonophore. Below is a rough translation of the most relevant passage...
From the Telos Press Blog: On Translating Ernst Jünger’s The Adventurous Heart: An Interview with Thomas Friese by Maxwell Woods Ernst Jünger’s The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccio is now available for the first time in English translation from Telos Press. Maxwell Woods spoke with the book’s translator, Thomas Friese, about the challenges of translating...
Aus der Wochenzeitung Freitag: Rauschzustand | 15.05.2012 | Sebastian Dörfler Hauptsache, es knallt! Krieg war ihm nicht alles: Ernst Jünger experimentierte auch mit Drogen – zusammen mit dem LSD-Erfinder Albert Hofmann. In Afrika sollte alles besser werden. Mit 18 Jahren meldete sich Ernst Jünger bei der französischen Fremdenlegion und reiste in den Kontinent, der von der ihm...
“What we do here is to judge a 100 year old man based only on what he did between his 19th and, let’s say, 29th year, and everything that he wrote in the next 70 years is not even mentioned.” Rolf Hochhuth, Baden Badener Dichterclub, 1995 “Was wir machen hier ist einen hundert jährigen allein zu betrachten, nachdem was er zwischen seinen 19sten und, sagen wir, 29sten Jahr...
“Here is a man who is free. Embroiled to the point of risking his life in the turmoil of the century, he held himself apart from his passions. Nothing can appropriate his name, nor his gaze, except perhaps that butterfly in Pakistan now called “Trachydura Jüngeri”, which is his pride. Because this rebel chases glow-worms, this soldier writes novels. A philosopher, he...
(Aus Science.ORF.at, 13.04.2012) Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) polarisierte wie kaum ein anderer Intellektueller des 20. Jahrhunderts. Man nannte ihn einen Propagandisten des Krieges und bezeichnete seine Dichtungen als “Herrenreiter-Prosa”. Dennoch hatte der deutsche Dichter-Philosoph auch für manche Vertreter der 68er-Bewegung seinen Reiz. Er war “eine Art Geheimtipp, umgeben...
Hier ein Text über “Auf der Marmorklippen” – ich finde ihn sehr lesenswert, auch für seine Betrachtungen über unsere eigenen Lage. Und ich bedanke mich für den Hinweis bei dem Verfasser, Philippe Guichard…. Der kosmische Ernst Jünger. In “Auf den Marmorklippen” erinnert die Prosa von Ernst Jünger an die “Illuminationen” des...
UPDATE 20.02.2012: as the anonymous commentator below says, with the wreck of the Concordia, Cassandra may be reminding us in a whisper of what she shouted out 100 years ago with the Titanic, and, less obviously, with the Concorde disaster. But what else should we expect in our titanic world: for as much rhetoric about peace and harmony as there is today, titans are by their very nature not a...
December is for dreaming and my own clear favourites are flying dreams. Here then, from Das Abenteuerliche Herz, Zweite Fassung, is my translation of “Flugträume”, followed by an exposition of my own flying dreams and perhaps comments from readers with theirs! “Flying dreams are like memories of the possession of a special spiritual power. In truth, they are more dreams of...
Wieder einmal muss ich mich bei Tobias Wimbauer bedanken für den Hinweis auf diesen Artikel aus “Jungen Freiheit”: JF, 2/11 / 14. Oktober 2011 Der konservative Pionier der Entschleunigung Der Germanist Jan Robert Weber hat sich in seiner Dissertation der umfangreichen Reiseliteratur des „Jahrhundertmenschen“ Ernst Jünger gewidmet und entdeckt unerwartete Kleinodien. Michael Böhm...
I was recently asked if someone knew where Ernst Jünger’s “The Peace” could be had in English – though one of his more important books with an excellent translation into English by Scott Hood, it has been out of print for many decades. It turned out to be a great question, because I consequently found this DOWNLOADABLE SCAN. Note that this book would be a most timely read...
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...
The titanic orientation of our contemporary humanity is a theme continually referred to and explained by Ernst Jünger and his brother Friedrich Georg. It might be useful to readers to have their vision applied in simple form to a few concrete aspects of our modern world. According to one interpretation, the etymology of the ancient Greek word “titan” expresses the notion of an...
“The problem is an economic system in need of more energy than it can find safely, and too willing to take risks. So one has to see the coal mine disaster, the BP oil spill and the Japan tragedy as all part of the next phase of the post-industrial world. The catastrophes are not unlike the sinking of the Titanic, (which EJ saw so clearly) which threw into relief the naive technical optimism of...
Other commentators have already speculated on the analogies between Jünger’s vision of Zapparoni’s technology in the “Glass Bees” with our internet. They have been rather vague allusions; now with the Stuxnet affair I get a chance to be more specific about one particular materialization in our world of Jünger’s “glass bees”: as computer viruses, trojans...
