Waldgänger – Ernst Jünger … Anarch

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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April 7, 2021

The Essential Anarch: quotes on the anarch from Eumeswil

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April 7, 2021

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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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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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May 29, 2019

Review of The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger

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May 29, 2019

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The Forest Passage Taken from The Worthy House on October 13, 2018, written by Charles Ernst Jünger was one of the more fascinating men of the twentieth century. Remembered in the English-speaking world primarily for his World War I memoir, The Storm of Steel, he was famous in Europe for a range of right-leaning thought spanning nearly eighty years (he lived from 1896 to 1998). His output was...

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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

“Technikutopie und Technikkritik bei den Brüdern Jünger”: Tagungsprogramm 2018, Ernst und F.G. Jünger Gesellschaft

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November 13, 2017

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Kloster Heiligkreuztal, 23–25 März 2018 ** Information und Anmeldung: Ernst und Friedrich Georg Jünger-Gesellschaft. Oder direkt per E-Mail an Hans-Peter Oberle Freitag, 23 März 2018 20:00 – Eröffnung des Symposiums – Alexander Pschera und Thomas Bantle 20:15 – Die Philosophie der Technik in den 20er und 30er Jahren und Jüngers Arbeiter – Alexander Michailowski 21:30...

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May 17, 2016

CONFERENZA: Ernst Jünger tra censura e tecnica

In Associazione Eumeswil, Events

May 17, 2016

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Cari soci e simpatizzanti, siamo lieti di invitarVi ad un incontro dal titolo generale: ERNST JÜNGER – TRA CENSURA E TECNICA Sabato 21 maggio, ore 17 Hotel Croce di Malta Via della Scala 7, Firenze www.eumeswil.cc RelatorI: Valentina Menesatti e Pietro Piro. Pierluigi Moressa al termine ci leggerà pagine tratte da Sulle scogliere di marmo di Ernst Jünger. Nel corso dell’ incontro si...

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November 24, 2014

Praise for the new English translation of Jünger’s Der Waldgang

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November 24, 2014

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24November

The Forest Passage is available from Telos (and other major booksellers) as of today. Here are some comments from the Telos site on the book: Ernst Jünger’s The Forest Passage explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent thinker can withstand and oppose the power of the omnipresent state. No matter how extensive the technologies of surveillance become, the forest...

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November 25, 2013

The Forest Passage – old freedom in new clothes

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November 25, 2013

25November

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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November 16, 2013

The Forest Passage – into the concrete jungle

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November 16, 2013

16November

Looking forward to the publication of this first translation of Ernst Jünger’s Der Waldgang from Telos Press in December! Until then the cover image also provides food for thought. Visually, I find it original and eye-catching. More importantly, it communicates in a nicely condensed form much of what Jünger has to say in the text; any reader ripe for the author’s message...

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April 17, 2012

Ernst Jünger. Kämpfer – Psychonaut – Anarch

In Biography, Jüngerian Reflections

April 17, 2012

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(Aus Science.ORF.at, 13.04.2012) Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) polarisierte wie kaum ein anderer Intellektueller des 20. Jahrhunderts. Man nannte ihn einen Propagandisten des Krieges und bezeichnete seine Dichtungen als “Herrenreiter-Prosa”. Dennoch hatte der deutsche Dichter-Philosoph auch für manche Vertreter der 68er-Bewegung seinen Reiz. Er war “eine Art Geheimtipp, umgeben...

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August 15, 2011

Der Waldgang als Hörbuch

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August 15, 2011

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UPDATE 18 AUG/11 Zwei neue Rezension zum Hörbuch “Der Waldgang” sind letztlich erschienen (danke Tobias Wimbauer): “Fränkischen Nachrichten” 15. August 2011, S. 23: Hörbuch1951 veröffentlichte Ernst Jünger den kulturpessimistischen Essay „Der Waldgang“. Jünger entwarf darin das Bild eines übermächtigen Staates – das kann sowohl ein diktatorischer Staat als auch die moderne...

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October 10, 2009

The anarch – a wolf, a master spy?

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October 10, 2009

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It occurs to me that one could explain and differentiate the Anarch and the Waldgänger with at least a couple of analogies …. One could bring the old Biblical expression “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” to bear on the Anarch, who appears to be like the masses around him but underneath is not at all. He can be social but he is not socialized. Unlike the socialized beings around...

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