Ernst Jünger

We aspire to an objective, practical understanding of Ernst Jünger's life and works, and encourage other seekers of freedom and self-realisation to join us. Jünger's insights can function as a valuable roadmap to freedom and meaning for individuals in today's social and spiritual landscape. Crucial is his figure of the autonomous and inwardly-free anarch (in contrast to the impotent and self-destructive anarchist) as presented in his important novel EUMESWIL.

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April 7, 2021

The Essential Anarch - quotes on the anarch from Eumeswil

As an aid to anyone aspiring to live as an anarch in the sense developed i n Ernst Jünger's novel, Eumeswil, through the character of i...

May 28, 2019

Ernst Jünger's "ON PAIN" and progressive hysteria in liberal democracies

Some excellent insights in this video on certain dangerously seductive illusions of liberal democracies - presented as and clearly stimulate...

April 18, 2019

The Path to a Higher Freedom: The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger

The Path to a Higher Freedom Tobias J. Lanz This review appears in the Summer 2014 issue of Modern Age ....

December 11, 2012

Interview with translator of "The Adventurous Heart"

From the Telos Press Blog : On Translating Ernst Jünger's The Adventurous Heart : An Interview with Thomas Friese by Maxwell Woo...

January 31, 2011

Neunzig Verweht - Dokumentarfilm über Ernst Jünger (1985)

Einen guten Dokumentarfilm von 1985 über Ernst Jünger habe ich kürzlich entdeckt - "90 Verweht" heißt er in Andeutung auf dem 90 G...

December 21, 2010

All Things are Nothing to Me *

Quoted from Eumeswil , regarding Max Stirner's concept of "Der Einziger": "Now just what are the cardinal points or the ...

October 10, 2009

Anarch and Waldgänger (1)

Comments I made on differences and commonalities in Ernst Jünger´s figures of the Anarch and the Waldgänger (the Forest Goer) went over well...

May 30, 2009

Apoliteia

Through much of my last rereading of Julius Evola’s “Ride the Tiger” I have not been able to overlook spiritual and practical parallels of E...

March 4, 2009

Incidental rewards

“Above all, I could confirm that this fowl was in fact a new breed. Rosner was enraptured; he absolutely insisted on naming it after me: Al...

February 27, 2009

Climate change, microclimates, and the individual.

“Incidentally, prior to setting up my bunker on the Sus, I studied construction plans that Captain Ross had found among the Eskimos of New N...

May 7, 2008

The anarch and the rules of society

“ The anarch differs from the anarchist in that he has a very pronounced sense of the rules. Insofar as and to the extent that he observes t...

April 18, 2008

The anarch: own ideas vs popular ideas

Martin Venator, or Manuel, the protagonist and exemplary anarch of Ernst Jünger’s novel Eumeswil often compares his own attitude and conduct...

April 9, 2008

The anarch's relationship to society and authority

Here is a particularly rich quotation from Ernst Jünger´s novel Eumeswil to continue the exposition of the anarch which we began here and ...

April 8, 2008

Anarch vs anarchist (II)

Last week's post ended by introducing the anarchist as someone who is not anarchic, in contrast to the free human being who is. Now we...

October 31, 2007

Anarch vs anarchist (I)

An immediate concern of a blog with anarch in its title is to establish the fundamental differences in political, social, and metaphysical ...

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