Dear Joel, Carl Schmitt wasn´t conservative. Any german who supported and worked for the nazis wasn´t conservative. The nazis were that part of the conservative revolution which gained control over the german state in 1933. And the nazis didn´t act like a conservative party when they came into power. They were conservative-revolutionaries and turned Germany into a fascist and militarist state which started World War II. Jünger wasn´t a nazi, but he belonged to elitarist conservative-revolutionary circles in the 1920s. Carl Schmitt became a nazi and worked for the nazis, until the nazis were fed up with him. Heidegger did the same thing and his nationalsocialist career ended when the nazis didn´t need him any more, like Carl Schmitt. The tragedy of people like Schmitt, Jünger and Heidegger was that they were conservative revolutionaries or thought that nacionalsocialism would be a real revolutionary movement, but they were also intelectuals and elitarists. The nazis were conservative revolutionaries too, but without any intelectual interests and without any elitarist conceptions. Jünger, Schmitt and Heidegger just didn´t fit into the concepts of the nazis, though they all belonged to the conservative revolution or thought that nacionalsocialism would be a real conservative-revolutionary movement. Yours, Klaus Read this article about the conservative revolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Revolutionary_movement
--- Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail.com> schrieb am Sa, 16.1.2010: Von: Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail.com> Betreff: Re: AW: [juenger_org] Niekisch's Critique of Juenger An: juenger_org@yahoogroups.de Datum: Samstag, 16. Januar 2010, 18:27 I don't believe in interpreting anything "progressively," only accurately. If EJ hated conservatism, why was he friends with Carl Schmitt? Right wing fringe or no, something remains unexplained in your account. Jd On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:20 AM, klaus gauger <klaus_gauger@ yahoo.com> wrote: Dear Joel, Tobias Wimbauer doesn´t want us to discuss such "primitive" topics like Ozzy Osbourne on this Ernst Jünger list. Actually, I´am fed up of this list anyway. The only ones in this list that seem to share my opinions are Simon and Greg. The other ones seem to see in Jünger a sort of hero against the tendencies of modern life and modern society and modern decadence in general and try to interpret him in a single-minded conservative way. To say it clear and straight: Ernst Jünger despised classical conservatism. He was in the 20s a conservative- revolutionary, a mixture between right-wing-ideas (nietzscheanism, etc.) and leftist revolutionary dynamics and marxist conceptions of society. He was heavily antibourgoise, surely also a hedonist and somewhat of a nihilist (he loved alcolhol, drugs and women, traveling, good books, etc.) and he surely was no christian or socialist moralist, thought after World War II he blended some catholic ideas into his own conceptions. He is a man that for me belongs to the future and to the intelligent members of our society, and not to the past and not to the right-wing fringe of society, though Jünger himself was inclined to right-wing ideas. But what will you expect from a man that was a World-War-I- Hero? The political beliefs of average people of today? We now have to interpret him in a progressive way, and we don´t have to preserve him as an old, backwarded, conservative man. And that´s why I am beginning to be fed up with this list. Besides Simon and Greg (who both like me laugh about "universitarian", "intelectual" and so called "elitarian" thinking) nobody seems to see clearly these facts. Yours, Klaus --- Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail. com> schrieb am Sa, 16.1.2010: Von: Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail. com> Betreff: Re: AW: [juenger_org] Niekisch's Critique of Juenger An: juenger_org@ yahoogroups. de Datum: Samstag, 16. Januar 2010, 2:57 Klaus might have a point if he was making an argument, much along the lines of Niekisch's own critique, that Juenger's approach is ultimately a sedative to be evaluated by economic measurements. For example, Klaus states that Ozzy's worth is ultimately defined by the fact that he made millions, was able to live in LA, and created "a new genre." Presumably, Juenger would be evaluated in similar fashion. Is the underground musical scene in Germany, which I know has been mentioned on this list before, more of the same? Is the "hero" ultimately hedonistic? To be evaluated by how much money the people whom are"inspired" pay for these products? Jd On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Tobias Wimbauer <wimba...@web. de> wrote: Bitte macht doch Eure privaten Plaudereien privat und nicht Listenöffentlich. Gruss Wim. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht--- -- Von: "klaus gauger" <klaus_gauger@ yahoo.com> Gesendet: 15.01.10 06:56:41 An: juenger_org@ yahoogroups. de Betreff: Re: AW: [juenger_org] Niekisch's Critique of Juenger Dear Joel, maybe you should give it a try and listen to some songs of Ozzy Osbourne and also read some of their lyrics. ItŽs surely not church music, but some of these songs are really good and intelligent. When it comes to Ozzys personal life: He wasnŽt happy about his alcoholism and drug addiction either and tried several time desperately to stop it. Like many people Osbourne has a demon inside him that drives him into alcoholism and drug addiction, but he was never proud about that and he wasnŽt also proud about the things he did under the influence of alcohol and drugs. When it comes to his music and his career: He surely can be proud about that, not many poor kids with working-class background from Birmingham in England have become millionares who live in L.A. and have created a whole new music genre. Yours, Klaus --- Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail. com> schrieb am *Fr, 15.1.2010:* Von: Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail. com> Betreff: Re: AW: [juenger_org] Niekisch's Critique of Juenger An: juenger_org@ yahoogroups. de Datum: Freitag, 15. Januar 2010, 3:47 I suppose I'm not very open minded about these things. Jd On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:53 PM, klaus gauger <klaus_gauger@ yahoo. com> wrote: Dear Joel, nihilism must not be something weak and worthless. It can also be a sign of strenght and vitality. Jünger says that in "Der Waldgang". Hedonism musnŽt also be bad, if it is combined with any sort of commitment to a cause. Ozzy Osbourne is, like many musicians, a hedonist, but he (and the other members of Black Sabbath, especially Tony Iommi) invented a new art-form, Heavy Metal, and Ozzy is commited to this art until today and has made great efforts to create songs that belong now to the history of Heavy Metal and are appreciated by many fans, like me for example. Seen from a marxist or christian morality Ozzy Osbourne surely is a ugly hedonist and nihilist, but seen from a more open-minded point of view he also is a person of high value for our society. Yours, Klaus --- Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail. com> schrieb am Do, 14.1.2010: > Von: Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail. com> > Betreff: Re: AW: [juenger_org] Niekisch's Critique of Juenger > An: juenger_org@ yahoogroups. de > Datum: Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2010, 20:23 > I'm not convinced. The article after > Niekisch's reviews Juenger's > "Nihilism" in greater depth. A phrase from "The Peace" > indicates a > complete rejection of this impulse, but what replaces > it? Aesthetics? > Ozzy Osbourne-like hedonistic abandonment? > > I believe the proper point of comparison would be > Hoelderlin, but I am > without conclusions, only questions. > > Jd > > On 1/14/10, Thomas Friese <thomasfriese@ ymail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Bravo, Klaus! I would have replied exactly the same > way to "who finances > > it". > > > > I would add that an anarch is aware that there is no > free lunch in life. In > > one way or another, everyone pays for their choices. > But he is more aware of > > this reality and therefore attempts to choose > consciously what he is > > prepared to pay for. Most people get given their > choices already made by > > society and must still pay for what they don't > fundamentally want. > > > > The anarch also "knows the rules" and realizes that > living in society has > > its price, which he must pay if he wants to remain > there and not flee to the > > forest. > > > > Thomas > > > > --- On Mon, 1/4/10, klaus gauger <klaus_gauger@ yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > > From: klaus gauger <klaus_gauger@ yahoo.com> > > Subject: AW: [juenger_org] Niekisch's Critique of > Juenger > > To: juenger_org@yahoogroups.de > > Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 4:32 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear Joel, > > > > > > it is right that Jünger always fled from society, as > a 18 year old schoolboy > > to the foreign legion, and as a old man as an anarch > into the forest. Who > > finances this freedom? That is a typical question of a > marxist. Today we > > have in modern society millions of anarchs: Young > people who donŽt want to > > make a career and donŽt want to participate in the > "rat race" and subsist > > with temporary jobs, or doing their own business, or > even with social > > welfare or who live from the money of their parents, > young people who > > experiment with drugs, travel, read, write (all the > things that Jünger did), > > sometimes temporarily, sometimes as a choosen > lifestile. They survive in the > > economical and geographical niches that modern, rich > and developed societies > > always offer. The question is not "who finances this > freedom?" the question > > is: "Do you dare to live an individualistic, > anti-conformistic life, even if > > means to have less money than average people, even if > it means that you > > donŽt get the recognition that average people get as > so called hard-working > > citizens?". Besides: Also an anarch can work very > hard. Jünger wrote a lot > > of books and earned some money with it. But an > Anarch will always do a work > > that is also rewarding for himself. He wonŽt work > only for money or because > > he has fear to be evaluated as an unworthy, lazy > outsider in society. > > > > > > Yours, > > > > Klaus > > > > > > > > --- Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail. com> schrieb am > Mo, 4.1.2010: > > > > > > Von: Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail. com> > > Betreff: [juenger_org] Niekisch's Critique of Juenger > > An: "juenger_org" <juenger_org@ yahoogroups. > de> > > Datum: Montag, 4. Januar 2010, 14:26 > > > > > > > > > > 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 doesnâ t realize how indebted > every individual is to the > > collective: indeed, he remarks, â glorious > isolationâ 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 Juengerâ s poses the > flight from society, â whether > > in Africa, as a heroic soldier, a gourmet of > aesthetics, as a runaway from > > Hitleâ 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.â > Finally, Niekisch asks, â where > > is the forest?â He considers the trees a natural > metaphor for solitude and > > refuge, comparable to Rousseauâ s idea of nature. AS > such the forest â is the > > somber feeling, the intuitive sense of the inner self, > emancipated from the > > exterior world.â Niekisch concludes with the > material question, â who > > finances this freedomâ > > > > Curious how list members would respond to Niekisch's > critiques. > > > > Best, > > > > > > Joel > > > > > > > > > > ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verfügt über einen > herausragenden Schutz > > gegen Massenmails. > > http://mail. > yahoo.com > > > > > > > -- > joeldietz.com | twitter.com/ jdietz | > twitter.com/ fractastical (tech) > > > ------------ --------- --------- ------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > (Yahoo!-ID erforderlich) > > juenger_org- fullfeatured@ yahoogroups. de > > > > ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! 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