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...
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...
A Call for Papers on post-1945 Ernst Jünger, which for obvious reasons I am happy to pass on here – far too infrequently does this vastly more significant period of his life get attention from academia! Organized by/for the annual meeting of american Germanisten in Kansas City, Missouri, Sept 18 – 21. For more information, click on the text or contact Thorsten Carstensen:...
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...
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...
Von radioZeitreisen (Bayern 2, 01.07.2012) kommt diese kurz und bündige Zusammenfassung des “Annäherung. Drogen und Rausch” (1970) von Ernst Jünger. Eine wesentliche Seite Jüngers, die fast nie erwähnt wird!
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...
SWR Radio Hörspiel “Das Abenteuerliche Herz” – nach Texten von Ernst Jünger. Ursendung 16.02.2012. Etwas übertheatralisch aber trotzdem unterhaltsam.
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...
Und hier noch ein Video zum 100 Geburtstag von Ernst Jünger – “Anarch im Widerspruch”, BR 1995
