Stirner – Ernst Jünger … Anarch

April 7, 2021

The Essential Anarch: quotes on the anarch from Eumeswil

April 7, 2021

07April

As an aid to anyone aspiring to live as an anarch in the sense developed in Ernst Jünger’s novel, Eumeswil, through the character of its protagonist, Manuel, I have compiled a complete collection of all quotations from the book that elaborate on this critical Jüngerian theme. However impossible such a choice may seem given all the unique ideas Jünger has given us, I do find the concept of...

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December 21, 2010

All Things are Nothing to Me *

In Anarch

December 21, 2010

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21December

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...

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December 18, 2010

ZEIT interview with Ernst Jünger in 1989

In Academic, Anarch

December 18, 2010

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18December

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...

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May 27, 2010

“My Thing” and “God’s Thing”

In Anarch, Jüngerian Reflections

May 27, 2010

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27May

Max Stirner’s “The Ego and its Own” (Der Einziger und sein Eigentum) was a fundamental text for Ernst Jünger´s development of the figure of the Anarch. In Eumeswil, Ernst Jünger summarizes the “cardinal points or the axioms of Stirner’s system, if one cares to call it that” as being just two – two however which “suffice for thorough...

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