Yes, I love Ackroyd's work ( not his fiction -- it's annoyingly middlebrow in places ) . Have you read "Albion?" It's great. He has also published work with Stewart Home and Iain Sinclair. Stewart Home's writing on psychogeography, 'anarchism' and art is excellent too. Greg.
--- On Sun, 20/12/09, klaus gauger <klaus_gau...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: klaus gauger <klaus_gau...@yahoo.com> Subject: AW: [juenger_org] Juenger an influence on Fukuyama and the Neo Cons? To: juenger_org@yahoogroups.de Date: Sunday, 20 December, 2009, 10:32 Dear Greg, I wrote an article about Peter Ackroyds book about London for a german radio-station. I liked the book, wrote a good review about it and I can recommend it Yours, Klaus --- Gregory Whitfield <gregd...@yahoo. com> schrieb am Sa, 19.12.2009: Von: Gregory Whitfield <gregd...@yahoo. com> Betreff: [juenger_org] Juenger an influence on Fukuyama and the Neo Cons? An: juenger_org@ yahoogroups. de Datum: Samstag, 19. Dezember 2009, 12:41 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> 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. ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verfügt über einen herausragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails. http://mail. yahoo.com
