Before he pushed the first domino in the symbolic “Fall of the Wall” in Berlin tonight, Lech Walesa said no politicians could have foreseen before 1989 that the Wall would fall – which goes to show how much more clearly this particular anarch understood history and therefore reality: “At various times, I have stood between the barricades – for example, during March...
It occurs to me that one could explain and differentiate the Anarch and the Waldgänger with at least a couple of analogies …. One could bring the old Biblical expression “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” to bear on the Anarch, who appears to be like the masses around him but underneath is not at all. He can be social but he is not socialized. Unlike the socialized beings around...
Through much of my last rereading of Julius Evola’s “Ride the Tiger” I have not been able to overlook spiritual and practical parallels of Evola’s ‘differentiated’ type of man to Jünger’s anarch. These become so obvious in the chapter “States and Parties: Apoliteia”, that I must comment. Both Evola’s differentiated man and the anarch have recognised the unworthiness of the ideas, motives and...
The anarch differs from the anarchist in that he has a very pronounced sense of the rules. Insofar as and to the extent that he observes them, he feels exempt from thinking. This is consistent with normal behavior: everyone who boards a train rolls over bridges and through tunnels that engineers have devised for him and on which a hundred thousand hands have labored. This does not darken the...
“It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character.There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly fair.But at least people saw temples instead of termite architecture.Bliss is drawing closer; it is no longer in the afterlife, it will come, though not momentarily, sooner or...
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...
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...
