Personally I'd say the next thing to read would be On the Marble Cliffs, the
classic novel of Inner Emigration from 1939.
Regards,
jk
Von: Gregory Whitfield gregd...@yahoo.com
An: juenger_org@yahoogroups.de
Gesendet: Dienstag, den 1. September 2009, 15:50:05
Dear Greg,
as you are very influenced by Max Stirner, Eumeswil should be important to
you. In Eumeswil Jünger builds up his fourth and last figure (Gestalt).
After the warrior (Der Krieger) , the worker (Der Arbeiter), the forest-fleer
(Der Waldgänger, who already is an anarchist figure)
I should think that 'the Worker' should be read before 'On Pain,' but I was
unable to find the English translation this past attempt. Does anyone know
where one might able to find a copy?
I attempted the German but did not make as much progress as I hoped.
Jünger builds up in Eumeswil the anarch (Der Anarch, a non-violent
concept of anarchism)
Not true. Der Anarch can shoot in any direction at any time.
Dear sagejoel,
Jünger differs in Eumeswil clearly between anarchists (who want to destroy
the existing order by anarchist violence and who usually only confirm the
existing order because they fail to destroy the order and only provoke a harsh
reaction by the people who defend the existing
Eumeswil quotes assembled from the internet (my copy is unavailable) :
The possibility of killing someone else is part of the potential of the anarch
whom everyone carries around inside himself, even though he is seldom aware of
that possibility.
Not only can I kill him; I can also grant him
A more extensive exposition of Juenger's views can be found in his Waldganger
(http://www.juenger.org/mailarchive/8_1998/msg0.php):
It may seem strange that a single individual, or even several, should resist
the Leviathan. Yet it is precisely through their action that the colossus
Dear sagejoel,
the hero of Eumeswil, Martin Venator, is a servant of the tyrann in this novel,
called the condor. He could kill the condor if he wanted to, but he has
no reason to do it. The anarch has the possibility of killing somebody as much
as any other person has this possibility. But
