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April 18, 2019

Path to a Higher Freedom: a review of The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger

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April 18, 2019

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18April

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...

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April 3, 2019

Video review of On Pain (Über den Schmerz) by Ernst Jünger

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April 3, 2019

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03April

A light and amusing but nonetheless insightful and accurate review of On Pain, the English translation by Telos Press of Ernst Jünger’s Über den Schmerz.

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October 6, 2015

STURM by Ernst Jünger available in English from Telos Press

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October 6, 2015

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06October

from the Telos Press website…: Sturm by Ernst Jünger Translated by Alexis P. WalkerWith an Introduction by David Pan Set in 1916 in the days before the Somme offensive, Ernst Jünger’s Sturm provides a vivid portrait of the front-line experiences of four German infantry officers and their company. A highly cultivated man and an acute observer of his era, the eponymous Lieutenant Sturm...

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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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November 26, 2014

iPhone4 or iPhonophore?

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November 26, 2014

26November

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...

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November 24, 2014

Praise for the new English translation of Jünger’s Der Waldgang

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November 24, 2014

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24November

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...

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November 25, 2013

The Forest Passage – old freedom in new clothes

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November 25, 2013

25November

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...

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November 16, 2013

The Forest Passage – into the concrete jungle

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November 16, 2013

16November

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...

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October 26, 2013

The Forest Passage – coming soon in English!

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October 26, 2013

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26October

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...

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February 4, 2013

Jünger Translation Competition!

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February 4, 2013

04February

Ernst Jünger Translation Competition Launched The German Department at the University of Bristol is holding a translation competition and invites translations from German into English of extracts from some of Ernst Jünger’s travel writings. Prize money will be given to four entries, with one category limited to entries from current undergraduate students, and numerous book prizes will also be...

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December 11, 2012

Interview with translator of “The Adventurous Heart”

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December 11, 2012

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11December

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...

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November 18, 2012

FG Jünger’s “The Failure of Technology: as ebook!

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November 18, 2012

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18November

A fantastic recent find, which I trust readers will appreciate and help spread the word – an ebook of this classic and essential critique of modern “scientism” and technology, which has been out-of-print and virtually unfindable in English since the 1960’s! It was translated in 1950 from the German original: “Die Perfektion der Technik” – which, btw, in...

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August 28, 2012

“The Adventurous Heart”: Solitary Sentinels

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August 28, 2012

28August

ON SALE FROM SEPT 1 One last appetizer has been conceded by the publishers before this new Jünger translation goes on sale Sept 1…. Solitary Sentinels – Berlin  Swedenborg condemned the “spiritual stinginess” that locked away his dreams and insights. But what of the spirit’s contempt for minting and issuing itself into general circulation, what of its aristocratic self-sufficiency in...

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July 28, 2012

From “The Adventurous Heart”: The Combinatorial Inference

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July 28, 2012

28July

One more appetiser from the forthcoming Jünger translation “The Adventurous Heart. Figures and Capriccios“. I might be permitted to add one or two more, then it will in any case be September and you can order the book yourselves from Telos Press. The Combinatorial Inference – Berlin Higher insight does not live in the separate compartments but in the structure of the world. It...

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June 17, 2012

New publication! “The Adventurous Heart – Figures and Capriccios”

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June 17, 2012

17June

I am at last able to share the happy news that this fall Telos Press will publish the first English translation of “Das Abenteuerliche Herz. Figuren und Capriccios” – as The Adventurous Heart. Figures and Capriccios. The volume will additionally contain the translation Sicilian Letter to the Man in the Moon. Telos has kindly given me permission to publish a few appetisers in...

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