Adventurous Heart – Ernst Jünger … Anarch

January 22, 2020

In the Trenches of History: the author Ernst Jünger – 2019 documentary with English subtitles!

January 22, 2020

22January

Here’s a decent documentary film on the German Goethe Prize author Ernst Jünger, produced by rbb/ARTE. I went to some considerable trouble to create good English subtitles – hope they’ll allow more non-German speakers to learn something of this remarkable man. Source: ARTE.DE (2019); One of the better documentaries on Ernst Jünger, this relatively more balanced production is...

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December 11, 2012

Interview with translator of “The Adventurous Heart”

In Book review, Jünger Texts, Jüngerian Reflections, Translations

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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August 28, 2012

“The Adventurous Heart”: Solitary Sentinels

In Jünger Texts, Translations

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

In Book review, Jünger Texts, Translations

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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July 6, 2012

The Adventurous Heart – Figures and Capriccios. Publisher’s information sheet

In Book review, Jünger Texts

July 6, 2012

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06July

Download here – for easier viewing, and to help spread the word to some certainly grateful ears.

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June 28, 2012

From “The Adventurous Heart”: Terror

In Book review, Jünger Texts

June 28, 2012

28June

Another short appetiser from the forthcoming publication of The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios from Telos Press: Terror – Berlin There is a type of thin, broad sheet metal that is often used in small theaters to simulate thunder. I imagine a great many of these metal sheets, yet still thinner and more capable of a racket, stacked up like the pages of a book, one on top of...

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June 17, 2012

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

In Book review, Jünger Texts, Translations

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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June 8, 2012

Hörspiel – “Das Abenteuerliche Herz”

In Audio, Biography

June 8, 2012

08June

SWR Radio Hörspiel “Das Abenteuerliche Herz” – nach Texten von Ernst Jünger. Ursendung 16.02.2012. Etwas übertheatralisch aber trotzdem unterhaltsam.

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May 1, 2012

Filmessay über Jünger: Das Abenteuerliche Herz (1993)

In Biography, Video

May 1, 2012

01May

Ich habe auch einen deutschen Filmessay über Ernst Jünger auf Youtube gefunden. Unterhaltsam, und auch ziemlich aufschlussreich.

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April 17, 2012

Ernst Jünger. Kämpfer – Psychonaut – Anarch

In Biography, Jüngerian Reflections

April 17, 2012

17April

(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...

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January 8, 2012

Baden-Badener “Dichterclub” über Ernst Jünger – 1995

In Academic, Video

January 8, 2012

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08January

Ich lass die Literaten selbst reden – Hochhut und Herhaus mindestens haben was richtiges mitzuteilen. (Und ich bedanke mich bei Holger, der mir die originale VHS Aufnahme geschickt hat!) (Wenig überraschend, dass für Theweleit nur die “Annäherungen. Drogen und Rausch” interessant sind. Nur in diesem Bereich sieht er aus, als ob auch er vielleicht etwas Erfahrung hat ;-)...

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December 19, 2011

Flying dreams – Jünger’s and mine

In Jüngerian Reflections

December 19, 2011

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19December

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...

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March 17, 2011

Through blazing curtains of fire – Fukushima et al.

In Jünger Texts, Jüngerian Reflections

March 17, 2011

17March

“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...

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