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Arno Breker's portrait of Ernst Jünger
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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:
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Part One: 14:47, Part Two: 14:28, Part 3: 12:26
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1,937 wordsPart 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.” (more…)
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Arno Breker's portrait of Ernst Jünger
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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.”
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4,457 wordsTranslated 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. (more…)
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2,470 wordsPart 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. (more…)
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2,541 wordsPart 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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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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Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961
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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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1,416 wordsTranslated 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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Arno Breker’s portrait of Ernst Jünger
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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.
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Alain de Benoist
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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. (more…)
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3,155 wordsThe 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.” (more…)
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Alain de Benoist
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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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1,534 wordsTranslated by Michael O’Meara
Translations: Czech, Portuguese
The noted French nationalist and historian speaks to the personal imperatives of white liberation. (more…)
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Ernst Jünger, 1895–1998
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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. (more…)
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4,351 wordsDominique Venner
Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen
Paris: Éds. du Rocher, 2009In 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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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, 2010This 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).
