Thanks Stefan. Here's the full URL for anyone interested: http://www.sezession.de/wp-content/uploads/alte_nummern/sezession_heft22.pdf
Jd On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Stefan Jarl <stefj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It was some time I read Niekisch's text so I'll refrain from commenting for > now. But I found it interesting, even though it gave me the impression that > Niekisch's focus on politics made him unable to see what Jünger really was > onto. > > And also: The essay in question was published in 2008 by the german journal > Sezession and is availible online in their pdf-archive: > http://www.sezession.de/ ("PDF-Download der alten Ausgaben" to the right). > > /Stefan > > 2010/1/4 Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail.com> > > >> >> Was reviewing my notes on Eliot Neaman's Dubious Past (P. 188-189), and >> came across this:* >> >> In a two-page critique of the Waldgang, a copy of which Niekisch sent to >> Juenger, the former editor of the national Bolshevist Widerstand compared >> Juenger ot Max Stirner, whose individualism was nearly solipsistic. Acording >> to Niekisch, Juenger doesn’t realize how indebted every individual is to the >> collective: indeed, he remarks, “glorious isolation” is a version of >> societal exploitation. Niekisch wonders why the figure of the Waldgaenger >> has achieved such popularity among conservatives, positing that postwar >> individualism is the last refuge o the European intellectual, threatened by >> the mass culture of America nad the Stalinist Leviathan of Russia.* >> >> * * >> >> *Niekisch detects in all of Juenger’s poses the flight from society, >> ”whether in Africa, as a heroic soldier, a gourmet of aesthetics, as a >> runaway from Hitle’rs army in the dreamy reflection of Gardens and Streets, >> as a mountain dweller in the cosmic sphere of Heliopolis. .. . wherever one >> looks, one uncovers the figure of the fleeing nihilist.” Finally, Niekisch >> asks, “where is the forest?” He considers the trees a natural metaphor for >> solitude and refuge, comparable to Rousseau’s idea of nature. AS such the >> forest “is the somber feeling, the intuitive sense of the inner self, >> emancipated from the exterior world.” Niekisch concludes with the material >> question, “who finances this freedom”* >> >> Curious how list members would respond to Niekisch's critiques. >> >> Best, >> >> Joel >> >> >> > >
