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February 17, 2021

Between Order and Disorder: Ernst Jünger on the Marble Cliffs

February 17, 2021

17February

(From VoegelinView, 16 Feb 2021) There are several examples that help us grasping that particular zeitgeist lived in the first half of the 20th century. A book such as Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain gives us a description of the moral and spiritual decomposition of the then bourgeois society. At this time, in the bashed and defeated post-war Germany, nihilism had turned to be a dominant moral...

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October 11, 2013

Exhibition: Ernst Jünger and Albert Renger-Patzsch

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October 11, 2013

11October

Just received notice of this interesting exhibition in Boulder, Colorado, from its curator, Ross Etherton, a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder. His exhibit showcases many early copies of Jünger’s works, most of which once belonged to Gerhard Loose (one of Jünger’s biographers), as well as some hand-labeled beetles that belonged to Jünger (on loan from Dr. Frank...

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April 10, 2012

Der kosmische Ernst Jünger

In Biography, Jüngerian Reflections

April 10, 2012

10April

Hier ein Text über “Auf der Marmorklippen” – ich finde ihn sehr lesenswert, auch für seine Betrachtungen über unsere eigenen Lage. Und ich bedanke mich für den Hinweis bei dem Verfasser, Philippe Guichard…. Der kosmische Ernst Jünger. In “Auf den Marmorklippen” erinnert die Prosa von Ernst Jünger an die “Illuminationen” des...

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December 4, 2011

The Tree – an unofficial translation for the Munich exhibition

In Events, Jünger Texts

December 4, 2011

04December

For any non-Germans visiting the Munich photographic exhibition “Über Bäume und Gestein. Albert Renger-Patzsche und Ernst Jünger“, here is an unofficial translation I found of “Der Baum”. “Every language contains a wealth of words that constitute its being. Poetry lives by them. As if a bell had been rung, they awaken an aura of echoes in us. “Tree” is one of these...

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November 26, 2011

“November” – a Jünger translation for the season

In Jünger Texts, Translations

November 26, 2011

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26November

When I met Ernst Jünger in 1995 in the company of the Association Eumeswil Florence and asked about any particular works he desired to be translated into English, he produced a compilation of essays entitled “Grenzgänge” (Border Crossings). Here is one essay I have just finished in unofficial translation – just in time for this grey month of darkness and dying, and already...

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