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Video of the Day
“Ernst Jünger, 102 Years in the Heart of Europe”
(Swedish documentary with English subtitles)

time: 57:32

Published: May 8, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ernst Junger, video of the day, videos | 3 Responses

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Remembering Ernst Jünger:
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

Greg Johnson

Arno Breker's portrait of Ernst Jünger

237 words

Ernst Jünger was born on this day in 1895.

In commemoration, we wish to draw your attention to the following works published on this site.

First, there are two pieces by Jünger himself:

Published: March 29, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Ernst Junger, Greg Johnson, North American New Right | 1 Response

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Video of the Day
Ernst Jünger at Ninety (In Three Parts)

Video of the Day

Part One: 14:47, Part Two: 14:28, Part 3: 12:26

Published: March 29, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, literature, National Socialism, video of the day, videos, World War I, World War II | 1 Response

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Ernst Jünger e O Trabalhadorr:
Uma trajetória vital e intelectual entre os deuses e os titãs

Alain de Benoist

Ernst Jünger and his brother Friedrich Georg Jünger

3,510 words

English version, Part 1 and Part 2

Ao evocar O Trabalhador, ao mesmo tempo que a primeira versão de Coração Aventureiro, o ensaísta Armin Mohler, Read more …

Published: January 29, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Georg Jünger, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Portuguese, in translation, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, the Weimar Republic, World War One | Leave a comment

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Листування Юнґера з Гайдеґґером

Alain de Benoist

1,113 words

English original here

Коли двоє великих людей – і яких людей, безумовно найвидатніший філософ двадцятого століття і один з найвпливовіших письменників – листуються між собою, що саме воно обговорюють? Read more …

Published: October 11, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, European New Right, Friedrich Georg Jünger, Greg Johnson, in translation, in Ukrainian, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right | Leave a comment

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Ernst Jünger:
The Figure of The Worker Between the Gods & the Titans, Part 3

Alain de Benoist

Friedrich Hielscher, 1902–1990

1,572 words

Part 3 of 8 (Click here for Parts 1 & 2)

Translated by Greg Johnson

In April 1928, Ernst Jünger entrusted the editorship of Der Vormarsch to his friend Friedrich Hielscher. Read more …

Published: July 26, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Ernst Junger, Ernst Niekisch, Friedrich Georg Jünger, Johnson translation, national bolshevism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, technology, the Conservative Revolution, the Weimar Republic, translations | 2 Responses

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O pravicovém anarchismu

Karlheinz Weißman

914 words

English original here

Koncept pravicového anarchismu se jeví paradoxním, ne-li přímo jako protimluv, počínaje představou toho, že všechny “pravicové” politické názory obsahují obzvláštní důraz na princip řádu. Read more …

Published: May 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, decadence, Ernst Junger, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Henry de Montherlant, in Czech, in translation, Julius Evola, Karlheinz Weißman, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Maurice Barrès, North American New Right, reprints, Stefan George, Traditionalism, Yukio Mishima | Leave a comment

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Ernst Jünger:
The Figure of The Worker Between the Gods & the Titans, Part 2

Alain de Benoist

Ernst Jünger and his brother Friedrich Georg Jünger

1,569 words

Part 2 of 8

Translated by Greg Johnson

Portuguese translation here

“Losing the War to Win the Nation”

During this time Jünger had a number of literary and philosophical influences. Read more …

Published: April 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, conservatism, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Georg Jünger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johnson translation, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, technology, the figure of the worker, the Weimar Republic, translations, World War One | 4 Responses

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Ernst Jünger:
The Figure of The Worker Between the Gods & the Titans, Part 1

Alain de Benoist

1,937 words

Part 1 of 8

Translated by Greg Johnson

Portuguese translation here

Armin Mohler, author of the classic The Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1918–1932, wrote regarding Ernst Jünger’s The Worker (Der Arbeiter) and the first edition of The Adventurous Heart: “To this day, my hand cannot take up these works without trembling.” Read more …

Published: April 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, Johnson translation, North American New Right, originals, the figure of the worker, the Weimar Republic, translations, World War One | Leave a comment

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Remembering Ernst Jünger:
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

Greg Johnson

Arno Breker's portrait of Ernst Jünger

221 words

Ernst Jünger was born on this day in 1895.

In commemoration, we are publishing my translation of Alain de Benoist’s important essay on Jünger: “Soldier, Worker, Rebel, Anarch: Types and Figures in Jünger’s Writings.”

Published: March 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Ernst Junger, Greg Johnson, North American New Right | 3 Responses

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Soldier, Worker, Rebel, Anarch:
Types & Figures in Jünger’s Writings

Alain de Benoist

4,457 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Greek translation here

In Jünger’s writings, four great Figures appear successively, each corresponding to a quite distinct period of the author’s life. They are, chronologically, the Front Soldier, the Worker, the Rebel, and the Anarch. Through these Figures one can divine the passionate interest Jünger has always held toward the world of forms. Read more …

Published: March 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Ernst Junger, Johnson translation, North American New Right, reprints, translations | 2 Responses

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D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love:
Anti-Modernism in Literature, Part 4

Derek Hawthorne

2,470 words

Part 4 of 4. Click here for all four parts.

Gudrun Brangwen, the Modern Woman

Gerald Crich is only one half of Lawrence’s portrait of the “modern individual.” The other half is Gudrun Brangwen. Of course, Birkin and Ursula are modern individuals, though in a different sense. The latter couple are both seeking some fulfilling way to live in, or in spite of, the modern world. Read more …

Published: January 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropocentrism, anti-modernism, articles, book reviews, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, ecology, Ernst Junger, feminism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hawthorne-Women in Love, literature, Martin Heidegger, misanthropy, modernity, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, progress., technology, vitalism, Women in Love | Leave a comment

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D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love:
Anti-Modernism in Literature, Part 3

Derek Hawthorne

2,541 words

Part 3 of 4. Click here for all four parts.

Interestingly, perhaps the clearest parallels to Gerald Crich’s philosophy of life, and Lawrence’s treatment of it, are two thinkers Lawrence knew nothing about when he wrote Women in Love: Oswald Spengler and Ernst Jünger, both of whom were strongly influenced by Nietzsche.

Spengler: Faustian Man and Technology

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Reflections on the Aesthetic &
Literary Figure of the Dandy, Part III

Robert Steuckers

1,332 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 3 of 3. Part I: here. Part II: here.

Czech translation here

Chandala Figures of Decadence

The existential crisis that began around the middle of the 18th century led to nihilism, quite judiciously defined by Nietzsche as an “exhaustion of life,” Read more …

Published: August 13, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged amoralism, dandyism, decadence, drugs, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Frithjof Schuon, Johnson translation, Julius Evola, manliness, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, religion, Rene Guénon, Robert Steuckers, Traditionalism, translations, Victor Segalen | 1 Response

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Reflections on the Aesthetic &
Literary Figure of the Dandy, Part II

Robert Steuckers

Charles Baudelaire, 1821–1867

1,790 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 2 of 3. Part I: here

Translations: Czech, Portuguese

The Mission of the Artist According to Baudelaire

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Right-Wing Anarchism

Karlheinz Weißman

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961

789 words

Translations Czech, Spanish

The concept of right-wing anarchism seems paradoxical, indeed oxymoronic, starting from the assumption that all “right-wing” political viewpoints include a particularly high evaluation of the principle of order. . . . In fact right-wing anarchism occurs only in exceptional circumstances, when the hitherto veiled affinity between anarchism and conservatism may become apparent.

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Reflections on the Aesthetic &
Literary Figure of the Dandy, Part I

Robert Steuckers

1,416 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 1 of 3

Translations: Czech, Portuguese

Before getting to the quick of the subject, I would like to make three preliminary remarks:

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The Jünger–Heidegger Correspondence

Alain de Benoist

1,358 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Ukrainian translation here

When two great men—and what great men, in fact the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century and one of its most important writers!—correspond with one another, what do they discuss? Read more …

Published: July 28, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, book reviews, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, European New Right, Friedrich Georg Jünger, Greg Johnson, Johnson translation, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, on Heidegger, originals, translations | Leave a comment

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Ernst Jünger & the French New Right

Alain de Benoist

Arno Breker’s portrait of Ernst Jünger

2,828 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

The New Right obviously did not have to introduce Ernst Jünger’s name in France. When the New Right appeared at the end of the 1960s, the author of On the Marble Cliffs was already well-known to the French public. Indeed, Jünger was surely the German writer most famous and most read on this side of the Rhine. This situation, which always astonishes the Germans, is explained multiple ways.

Published: July 21, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, Ernst Junger, French New Right, Johnson translation, North American New Right, originals, translations | Leave a comment

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Jünger & Drieu La Rochelle

Alain de Benoist

3,655 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

In his Pariser Tagebücher [Paris Diaries], Ernst Jünger refers to his meetings in German-occupied Paris with Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (for example on October 11th, 1941 and on April 7th, 1942). Drieu was then the editor in chief of La Nouvelle Revue française, published by Gallimard. Read more …

Published: July 16, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, conservative revolution, dandyism, Ernst Junger, European identity, fascism, Johnson translation, literature, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, religion, translations, war | 1 Response

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East & West–The Gordian Knot:
Ernst Jünger’s Der gordische Knoten

Julius Evola

3,155 words

The name of Ernst Jünger has achieved an almost European notoriety. However the importance of this writer as a philosopher concerns above all the early period of his activities. An ex-serviceman in the First World War, he appeared as a spokesman of what in his day was already known as the “burnt out generation.” Read more …

Published: July 7, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Ernst Junger, Julius Evola, North American New Right, reprints, Traditionalism, translations | 1 Response

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Jünger, Heidegger, & Nihilism

Alain de Benoist

3,840 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Ernst Jünger and Martin Heidegger engaged in a dialogue on nihilism in two texts published five years apart in the 1950s on the occasions of their respective sixtieth birthdays.[1] The study and comparison of these texts is particularly interesting because they allow us to appreciate what, on this fundamental subject, separates two authors who are frequently compared to each other and who maintained a powerful intellectual relationship for several decades. What follows is a brief overview.

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The Rebel:
An Interview with Dominique Venner

Dominique Venner

1,534 words

Translated by Michael O’Meara

Translations: Czech, Portuguese

The noted French nationalist and historian speaks to the personal imperatives of white liberation. Read more …

Published: June 29, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, American Civil War, Dominique Venner, Ernst Junger, interviews, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, Patrick Pearse, rebels, reprints, translations, white activism | 1 Response

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Secret Aristocracies

Dominique Venner

Ernst Jünger, 1895–1998

640 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Czech translation based on this English translation here, Russian translation here

Jean-Paul Sartre once said of Ernst Jünger: “I hate him, not as a German, but as an aristocrat . . .”

Sartre had some grave defects. In his political impulses, he was mistaken with a rare obstinacy. Read more …

Published: June 28, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Dominique Venner, Ernst Junger, Jean-Paul Sartre, nobility, North American New Right, reprints, translations | 2 Responses

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Another European Destiny:
Dominique Venner’s Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen

Michael O'Meara

4,351 words

Dominique Venner
Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen
Paris: Éds. du Rocher, 2009

In Dominique Venner’s historical essay, Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen, the subject is presented as une figure ultime, a European archetype provisionally absent from Europe today, but nevertheless one rooted in the depths of the European spirit — and destined, thus, to re-appear should Europeans ever re-awake to re-assert themselves in the world.

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Two Against Time:
Julien Hervier’s Deux individus contre l’histoire

Didier Marc

1,746 words

Translated by Michael O’Meara

Ernst Jünger

Julien Hervier
Deux individus contre l’histoire:
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Ernst Jünger
2nd ed.
Paris: Éds. Euredit, 2010

This book is a revised and corrected re-edition, with a new afterword, of a text originally published in 1978 (itself an abridgment of a doctoral thesis submitted to the Sorbonne).