I just finished Rene Girard's *Achever Clausewitz* (Englished as Battling to the End) which I found an apt summary of the often unconscious mimetic dynamic in French-German relations and elsewhere and a re-reading of Ryuichi Abe's Weaving of Mantra, which presents the "waka-mantra" theory of perhaps the pre-eminent Buddhist philosopher of language, Kukai. I'm also doing some background reading in the origins of hunting related to my graduate research which I hope will also shed light on Juenger's use of the hunt metaphor in Eumeswil.
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Gregory Whitfield <gregd...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > Agreed Joel -- Hopefully the other video link I sent ( dated as it is ) may > offer a little more than Turnbull's article. > > How are you, and what are you reading these days? I am reading Peter > Ackroyd ( "*London : A Biography*" ) Eliade ( "*Sacred and Profane"* ) , *"The > Danger of Words*" ( writings on, and of Wittgenstein ) and *Ashtavakra > Gita*, the latter of which I think has much to offer those interested in > Juenger's Anarch. > > Greg. > > --- On *Sat, 19/12/09, Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail.com>* wrote: > > > From: Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [juenger_org] Juenger an influence on Fukuyama and the Neo > Cons? > To: juenger_org@yahoogroups.de > Date: Saturday, 19 December, 2009, 10:48 > > > > > Only that you've convinced me not to read the paper. ;) > > Jd > > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Gregory Whitfield <gregd...@yahoo. > com<http://uk.mc505.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gregd...@yahoo.com> > > wrote: > >> >> Dear boarders -- I circulated that Heidegger/Juenger paper to you all >> before I had actually read it myself. >> >> However, I have a number of problems with it -- I really had to stop >> reading when I got to page 14/15, and found Juenger's thought compared to >> political puppets and real lightweights such as Fukuyama and -- worst still >> -- the Neo conservative 'school' as a whole. >> >> Turnbull, the author of the paper wrote -- >> >> "If one examines the totality of ( Juenger's ) work as a whole, both pre >> and post second world war -- especially the ideas encapsulated in the late >> novels* Aladin's Problem *and *Eumeswill* -- Juenger's philosophy can be >> seen to be much closer to the 'cynical' and 'politically disengaged' forms >> of conservatism that dominated the late 20Th century's intellectual and >> political landscape ( represented in the neo liberal and neo Conservative >> modes of conservatism by Fukuyama and Wolfe.)" >> >> For a start, it's patently and utterly absurd that the author describes >> the Neo Cons and Fukuyama as 'politically disengaged,' and I don't need to >> explain my self further on that point. >> >> But even worse is Turnbull comparing the wisdom and insight of Juenger to >> the banal outlook of the Neo Cons, surely one the worst, most fraudulent, >> most vacuous,viciously and amorally hegemonic and morally void 'political >> schools' of the 20Th Century? >> >> No thanks. >> >> I couldn't read the paper any further than that. >> >> Any comments from the rest of the boarders? >> >> Greg. >> > > >
