Welcome to a new space for serious and objective study of Ernst Jünger's figure of the Anarch, primarily as it is developed in the 1977 novel Eumeswil.
As will become evident, this space is NOT for anarchists who do not understand the essential difference between an anarch and an anarchist. This distinction will in fact provide for much useful discussion in future posts.
Nor is it a place for misguided right-wing extremists, who, through a superficial reading or second-hand knowledge of some early works of Jünger's, believe they have found a guru suitable to their destructive mission and modest level of being. These lost souls are advised to look far lower in the cosmos for appropriate guidance.
This space is for sincere self-improvers and seekers of deeper meaning, individuals who are searching for personal orientation in the post-modern world - anyone who truly fits this description will discover that Ernst Jünger's writings provide an excellent road map for navigating in the moral and metaphysical void of our arid world. It is for adults who can stand on their own two feet, and for those struggling to get off all-fours and take their first truly independent steps.
The writers of this blog are extremely interested in Ernst Jünger's work and person and, frankly speaking, view him as the most important guide in our lives. We are not academics, professional writers, or literary critics. And we are convinced that there are others in this world, similar to use, who would benefit from the objective study of his thoughts.
Our motivation is above all to create a working space for our own digestion of his ideas and their elaboration into new intellectual tissue within our being. Secondarily, we would like to attract a few like-minded people, from whatever background, for genuine intellectual exchange.
It should be clear, or made so if that is not yet the case, that we take all of what Ernst Jünger has written very seriously. Which is not to say we accept or agree with his conclusions and opinions, for there would be absolutely no point in making the effort to read his works if we did not make an equal effort to digest, understand, objectively verify and then incorporate into our own being what we have understood and verified. And naturally to leave what we cannot agree with. Ernst Jünger would have been satisfied with nothing less in his readers.
We wish for readers with the same attitude.
On a closing note for this first entry, a quote from Eumeswil, which describes an excellent practical approach to profiting personally from everyday life and work in society, that is, to live and work as an anarch.
As will become evident, this space is NOT for anarchists who do not understand the essential difference between an anarch and an anarchist. This distinction will in fact provide for much useful discussion in future posts.
Nor is it a place for misguided right-wing extremists, who, through a superficial reading or second-hand knowledge of some early works of Jünger's, believe they have found a guru suitable to their destructive mission and modest level of being. These lost souls are advised to look far lower in the cosmos for appropriate guidance.
This space is for sincere self-improvers and seekers of deeper meaning, individuals who are searching for personal orientation in the post-modern world - anyone who truly fits this description will discover that Ernst Jünger's writings provide an excellent road map for navigating in the moral and metaphysical void of our arid world. It is for adults who can stand on their own two feet, and for those struggling to get off all-fours and take their first truly independent steps.
The writers of this blog are extremely interested in Ernst Jünger's work and person and, frankly speaking, view him as the most important guide in our lives. We are not academics, professional writers, or literary critics. And we are convinced that there are others in this world, similar to use, who would benefit from the objective study of his thoughts.
Our motivation is above all to create a working space for our own digestion of his ideas and their elaboration into new intellectual tissue within our being. Secondarily, we would like to attract a few like-minded people, from whatever background, for genuine intellectual exchange.
It should be clear, or made so if that is not yet the case, that we take all of what Ernst Jünger has written very seriously. Which is not to say we accept or agree with his conclusions and opinions, for there would be absolutely no point in making the effort to read his works if we did not make an equal effort to digest, understand, objectively verify and then incorporate into our own being what we have understood and verified. And naturally to leave what we cannot agree with. Ernst Jünger would have been satisfied with nothing less in his readers.
We wish for readers with the same attitude.
On a closing note for this first entry, a quote from Eumeswil, which describes an excellent practical approach to profiting personally from everyday life and work in society, that is, to live and work as an anarch.
"The days in the Casbah are fairly uniform. I can barely distinguish between work and leisure. I like them equally. This is consistent with my principle that there can be no empty time, no minute without intellectual tension and alertness. If a man succeeds in playing life as a game, he will find honey in nettles and hemlock; he will even enjoy adversity and peril.
What causes the feeling of being constantly on vacation? Probably the fact that the mental person liberates the physical one and observes his game. Far from any hierarchy, he enjoys the harmony of rest and motion, of invulnerability and extreme sensitivity."
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3 Comments:
Nice works..thank you karl
Dear Mr. Fraser,
I am a Philosophy student currently working on a essay on relationship between Nietzsche's Übermensch and Jünger's superior human types. I then wait to hear from you, since Jünger's scholars are rare and I appreciate this weblog of yours very much.
Best regards,
Andrea Virga
andrea.virga@sns.it
Caro Andrea,
Per coincidenza, parlo anche un pò di italiano. E mi é sempre un piacere poter far pratica!
Non sono un professore o studioso di Ernst Jünger ma semplicemente un grande ammiratore. Per me non c'é stata un'altro nel 20 secolo capace come lui di capire da dove siamo venuti, e dove stiamo andando. Sia per la società che per la terra e l'individuo. Se qualcuno mi dovessi constringere di scegliere il contribuito per importante da Ernst Jünger al moderno sarebbe la figura del anarca. Ecco perché ho comminciato questo blog molto amateuriale. Mi far pensare più profondamente quel che lui dice in Eumeswil, che è il libro più importante secondo me. (Anche per la tua thesis)
Ora per quanto riguarda la tua thesis, hai visto le varie citazione del Uebermensch in Eumeswil? Uno mi viene in mente dove Vigo, il maestro di Martin Venator, gli suggerisce di studiare la differenza fra Max Stirner's Der Einziger (L'unico) e il Superuomo di F.N?. (Capitolo 42)
Secondo me - e credo anche per Jünger - la parentella fra l'anarca e l'unico era più stretta che quello fra l'anarca e il superuomo. Ai primi due il potere non è essenziale, mentre per il superuomo è tutto, lo scopo della sua esistenza. L'anarca e l'unico vogliono poter diregire soltanto il loro destino e felicità. Per superuomo, felicità sarebbe impensabile senza potere.
Non sono un grande conoscitore di Nietzche, anche se lo apprezzo tanto. Credo che superuomo ha anche un'affinità con il mondo titanico nel senso di Ernst Jünger e fratello Friedrich Georg. Al anarca il mondo titanico o divino interessa soltanto in senso pratico, come sopravivere.
Ora mi ricordo che Jünger descrive il superuomo come un rame estinto, morto del albero genealogico del pensiero filosofico. Sempre in Eumeswi, non mi ricordo dove.
Stay in touch! And feel free to write comments on the blog, I would like to hear your thoughts.
Karl
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