Martin Venator, or Manuel, the protagonist and exemplary anarch of Ernst Jünger’s novel Eumeswil often compares his own attitude and conduct with that of his father and brother. Both relatives are historians like Martin, but neither are anarchs. In the following passage, Jünger contrasts Martin’s attitude to public and personal opinion with his father’s, in order to illustrate the intellectual...
The anarch’s relationship to society
Here is a particularly rich quotation from Ernst Jünger´s novel Eumeswil to continue the exposition of the anarch which we began here and continued here. In this quote, Jünger further explains the anarch’s role within society, his relationship to other individuals, to personal freedom, and to authority and external causes. “I tend to distinguish between other people’s opinions of me and my own...
Anarch vs anarchist (II)
Last week’s post ended by introducing the anarchist as someone who is not anarchic, in contrast to the free human being who is. Now we continue with two quotes which provide an explicit comparison and contrast of anarch and anarchist as conceived by Jünger. The monarch and the historian are also brought into the comparison for illustrative reasons. “If I were an anarchist and nothing...
Anarch vs anarchist (I)
An immediate concern of a blog with anarch in its title is to establish the fundamental differences in political, social, psychological and metaphysical terms between the anarch in Ernst Jünger’s sense and the anarchist as commonly understood. These difference are also an important aspect of defining the anarch. Although the fully conceived figure is first and most comprehensively presented...