politics – Ernst Jünger … Anarch

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 16, 2019

Review of Jünger’s WWII diaries in English translation – by Michael Lewis

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October 16, 2019

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16October

A Dandy Goes to War Review of A German Officer in Occupied Paris. The War Journals 1941 – 1945 by Ernst Jünger Sept 2019 – by MICHAEL LEWIS Nazi Germany produced two wartime diaries of equal literary and historical significance but written from the most different perspectives conceivable. Victor Klemperer wrote furtively, in daily dread of transport to an extermination camp, a fate...

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November 25, 2013

The Forest Passage – old freedom in new clothes

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November 25, 2013

25November

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...

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July 28, 2012

Ernst Jünger – Goethe Preis Rede

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July 28, 2012

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28July

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May 6, 2012

Francois Mitterand to Ernst Jünger on his 100th birthday – 1995

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May 6, 2012

06May

“Here is a man who is free. Embroiled to the point of risking his life in the turmoil of the century, he held himself apart from his passions. Nothing can appropriate his name, nor his gaze, except perhaps that butterfly in Pakistan now called “Trachydura Jüngeri”, which is his pride. Because this rebel chases glow-worms, this soldier writes novels. A philosopher, he...

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April 10, 2012

Der kosmische Ernst Jünger

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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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March 30, 2011

Ernst-Jünger-Haus: die Wiedereröffnung (aus der F.A.Z)

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March 30, 2011

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30March

Juenger-Haus.de Auf der Titelseite: Stehende Zeit – In Wilflingen endete jetzt eine Art Ernst- Jünger-Moratorium: Die Sachen des Schriftstellers sind in das Haus zurückgekehrt, das er 47 Jahre lang bewohnte. Und in dem er, 1993 war es, seinen Gästen Kohl und Mitterrand das “titanische Zeitalter” vorhersagte: “Die Technik wird sich nicht kontrollieren lassen. Es wird...

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November 9, 2009

Mauerfall – Fall of the Berlin Wall

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November 9, 2009

09November

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...

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May 1, 2008

The anarch on May Day

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May 1, 2008

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01May

Today, May Day 2008, we came across a relevant passage in Eumeswil, which happily also deals with the anarch/anarchist contrast we want to clarify at this early stage in our discussion. Martin Venator, Jünger´s model anarch in this book, is discussing political changes in a prelude to the following quotation, in particular the overthrows of governments that happen periodically in the state of...

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April 21, 2008

Personal happiness and the anarch

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April 21, 2008

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21April

“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...

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