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May 14, 2021

The Forest Passage – podcast reading of the whole book

May 14, 2021

14May

I discovered this podcast reading of The Forest Passage on a website new to me: Immediatism: Essays provocative and incendiary. The site offers almost 500 podcasts on a variety of topics from Anarchism to Post-Left to Technology and many other categories of alternative world views. The original reading was divided up into nine podcasts, including the translator’s introduction and a formal...

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February 17, 2021

Between Order and Disorder: Ernst Jünger on the Marble Cliffs

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February 17, 2021

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(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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May 30, 2019

Review of Eumeswil – with comparisons to The Forest Passage

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May 30, 2019

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30May

Eumeswil Taken from The Worthy House on January 21, 2019, written by Charles Ernst Jünger’s Eumeswil (Telos Press, 2015), one of the famous German’s last works, published when he was eighty-two years old, is often regarded as an exposition of libertarian thought. This is understandable, but completely wrong. Such a reading attempts to shoehorn concepts in which Jünger had little interest, or...

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April 18, 2019

Path to a Higher Freedom: a review of The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger

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April 18, 2019

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by Tobias J. Lanz This review of The Forest Passage appeared in the Summer 2014 issue of Modern Age. Download PDF version here. This is a book about freedom. It was first published in 1951 as a response to the Nazi experience and the perceived threat of Soviet expansion. Its explicit focus was resistance to the totalitarian state. Yet its implicit focus is resistance to all forms of social...

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November 13, 2017

Vortrag: “Detlev Schöttker: Ernst Jünger und Joseph Wulf. Ein Briefwechsel”

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November 13, 2017

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Vortrag und Lesung von Detlev Schöttker und Armand Presser in München 23 November, 2017 @19.00 Uhr NS-Dokumentationszentrum – Auditorium Brienner Str. 34 80333 München Unter den Historikern, die sich mit der Verfolgung und Vernichtung der europäischen Juden im Nationalsozialismus beschäftigt haben, nimmt Joseph Wulf als Auschwitz-Überlebender und erster Chronist des Holocaust eine besondere...

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February 23, 2017

Programm des Jünger-Symposions 2017 “AUF DEN MARMORKLIPPEN”

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February 23, 2017

23February

Ernst Jüngers „Auf den Marmorklippen“ – eine literarische Auseinandersetzung mit dem NS-Regime. Ernst und Friedrich Jünger Gesellschaft Kloster Heiligkreuztal, 7. – 9. April 2017 Freitag, 7. April 20.00 Eröffnung des Symposiums, Alexander Pschera und Thomas Bantle 20.15 Hans-Dieter Schäfer, Ernst Jünger und die literarische Moderne im...

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November 25, 2013

The Forest Passage – old freedom in new clothes

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November 25, 2013

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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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April 25, 2012

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

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April 25, 2012

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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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May 30, 2009

Apoliteia

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May 30, 2009

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30May

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...

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