self-knowlege – Ernst Jünger … Anarch

April 25, 2012

Ernst Jünger’s “On the Marble Cliffs” as a parable of staying true to yourself

April 25, 2012

25April

From Politosophia, a Russian website I stumbled upon, a nice English summary of “On the Marble Cliffs”, with an original and excellent take on one important message of the book in its title – how to stay true to yourself. Thank you, Olena! 15 квітня 2012 15:03 Olena Semenyaka National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” “There are periods of decline when the pattern fades...

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January 26, 2010

Secondary sources and the anarch

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January 26, 2010

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26January

“Secondary sources”: this academic convention came to mind during recent discussions on Ernst Jünger. It seems that secondary sources have different meanings to different people. Why this is so relates directly to the anarchic quality in that person – or its absence. In the common sense, secondary sources are external authorities commenting on the intellectual productions of the...

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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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April 9, 2008

The anarch’s relationship to society

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April 9, 2008

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09April

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...

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April 8, 2008

Anarch vs anarchist (II)

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April 8, 2008

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08April

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...

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October 31, 2007

Anarch vs anarchist (I)

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October 31, 2007

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31October

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...

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