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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March 11, 2009

Standing on one's own two feet

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"Here in Eumeswil, it seems as if the system occasionally falls asleep and the city begins to dream. The ship founders on a sandbank a...
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March 4, 2009

Incidental rewards

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“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...
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March 3, 2009

Living in no man's land

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“Bruno withdrew from the field of history more resolutely than Vigo; that is why I prefer the former’s retrospect but the latter’s prospect....
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February 27, 2009

Climate change, microclimates, and the individual.

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“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...
February 25, 2009

The anarch’s relationship to authority

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“Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical fa...
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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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