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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December 16, 2008

Human freedom and the welfare of the state

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As an exceptional excursion from the bounds of Eumeswil, I came across this passage in Ernst Jünger´s "An der Zeitmauer" (At the w...
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June 20, 2008

Reality and ideals

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"Playing the gentleman here would be possible only for actors; nor would anyone consider doing it anymore. Rather, people, such as my g...
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May 21, 2008

Human equality

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“When in the course of my work at the Luminar, I was reviewing public law, from Aristotle to Hegel and beyond, I thought of an Anglo Saxon ...
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May 7, 2008

The anarch and the rules of society

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“ 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...
May 1, 2008

The anarch on May Day

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Today, May Day 2008, we came across a relevant passage in Eumeswil , which happily also deals with the anarch/anarchist contrast we need to...
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April 21, 2008

Personal happiness and the anarch

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"It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. T...
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April 18, 2008

The anarch: own ideas vs popular ideas

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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

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Here is a particularly rich quotation from Ernst Jünger´s novel Eumeswil to continue the exposition of the anarch which we began here and ...
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April 8, 2008

Anarch vs anarchist (II)

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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...
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October 31, 2007

Anarch vs anarchist (I)

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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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