From the Telos Press Blog: On Translating Ernst Jünger’s The Adventurous Heart: An Interview with Thomas Friese by Maxwell Woods Ernst Jünger’s The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccio is now available for the first time in English translation from Telos Press. Maxwell Woods spoke with the book’s translator, Thomas Friese, about the challenges of translating...
Einen guten Dokumentarfilm von 1985 über Ernst Jünger habe ich kürzlich entdeckt – “90 Verweht” heißt er in Andeutung auf dem 90 Geburtstag Ernst Jüngers in selbem Jahr. Eigentlich gefällt mir dieses besser als das andere, das man schon langem im Internet finden kann (Ich widerspreche mir nicht, 1977).
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Quoted from Eumeswil, regarding Max Stirner’s concept of “Der Einziger”: “Now just what are the cardinal points or the axioms of Stirner’s system, if one cares to call it that? There are only two, but they suffice for thorough reflection: 1. That is not My business. 2. Nothing is more important than I.” For any readers able to transcend the usual reaction to...
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...
Above all, I could confirm that this fowl was in fact a new breed. Rosner was enraptured; he absolutely insisted on naming it after me: Alectura venatoris. I had a hard time dissuading him. After all, despite everything, I had tricked the good man. However, one of the anarch’s emoluments is that he is distinguished for things that he has done on the side or that go against his grain.” Eumeswil...
“Incidentally, prior to setting up my bunker on the Sus, I studied construction plans that Captain Ross had found among the Eskimos of New North Wales. A basic theme for the anarch is how man, left to his own devices, can defy superior forces – whether state, society, or the elements – by making use of their rules without submitting to them. ‘It is strange,’ Sir William Parry wrote when...
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...
Martin Venator, or Manuel, the protagonist and exemplary anarch of Ernst Jünger’s novel Eumeswil often compares his own attitude and conduct with that of his father and brother. Both relatives are historians like Martin, but neither are anarchs. In the following passage, Jünger contrasts Martin’s attitude to public and personal opinion with his father’s, in order to illustrate the intellectual...
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...
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...
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...
