Welcome to a space for the objective study of the works and ideas of Ernst Jünger, with a primary focus on his figure of the anarch as developed in his 1977 novel Eumeswil.
To avoid wasting anyone's time, let it be clear that this space is NOT for:
Naturally we are mostly interested in Ernst Jünger's mature works, though we take all of his work seriously. We do not necessarily agree with all his conclusions and opinions; for there would be 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 integrate these conclusions into our own being - and discard what we cannot agree with or use. Ernst Jünger would have been satisfied with nothing less.
As assistance to aspiring anarchs, I will include all quotes on the anarch from Eumeswil in due course. Here, as a closing note, is one that describes an excellent practical approach to profiting personally from everyday life and work in society.
To avoid wasting anyone's time, let it be clear that this space is NOT for:
- anarchists who have not grasped the essential difference between their anti-establishment worldview and that of an anarch. This opposition actually defines the anarch and will be developed in future posts (see posts named Anarch vs Anarchist)
- the fundamentally politicised of left or right-wing orientation. I refer primarily to Jünger's misguided right-wing fans or left-wing critics, who, through a superficial reading, or more commonly, a second-hand knowledge of some early works, believe they have found a figure useful in a positive or negative sense to support their essentially ineffective political agendas. We consider both these applications of his work abuses of their real value, particularly in regard to the deeply apolitical mature works of the post-1933 Jünger.
Naturally we are mostly interested in Ernst Jünger's mature works, though we take all of his work seriously. We do not necessarily agree with all his conclusions and opinions; for there would be 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 integrate these conclusions into our own being - and discard what we cannot agree with or use. Ernst Jünger would have been satisfied with nothing less.
As assistance to aspiring anarchs, I will include all quotes on the anarch from Eumeswil in due course. Here, as a closing note, is one that describes an excellent practical approach to profiting personally from everyday life and work in society.
"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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