A light and amusing but nonetheless insightful and accurate review of On Pain, the English translation by Telos Press of Ernst Jünger’s Über den Schmerz.
ZEIT interview with Ernst Jünger in 1989
The following is my unofficial translation of an interview with Ernst Jünger that appeared in ZEIT magazine in 1989. The interviewer is André Müller. A friendship developed from my original working contact with Ernst Jünger, whom I interviewed for ZEIT on November 8, 1989. We corresponded and he called me at regular intervals, initially to let me know about favorable critiques or newspaper...
Apoliteia
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...
Reality and ideals
Playing the gentleman here would be possible only for actors; nor would anyone consider doing it anymore. Rather, people, such as my genitor and my brother, feel like martyrs. Half of Eumeswil is inhabited by types who have suffered for an idea or at least claim to have done so. They stood true to the flag, offered heroic resistance – in short, the worn-out military claptrap has reawakened. Upon...