Date sent: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:08:44 +0000 (GMT) From: John King <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: fgj, ej FAQ Send reply to: [email protected]
Great idea. Count with me - I think I can fully respond third question:-). roberto > You might be interested to know that there are plans afoot in the deeper > recesses of cyberspace to create a FGJ web site. Watch this space for > details... > > One feature I'd like to include in the new version of "Ernst Juenger in > Cyberspace" is, in good old internet tradition, a FAQ. > > I have the following suggestion for a *small* collaborative project: > > 1. We establish questions > 2. We then draw up answers to them, on the more controversial ones we > could subvert the FAQ norm of one question, one authoritative answer by > including alternative answers. > > So, what questions? Here a few suggestions in no particular order: > > 1. Wasn't EJ a fascist who preprared the way for the Third Reich? (Why not > start off with the tricky ones?) > > 2. Is there an English translation of "Der Arbeiter" (no, but - it's a > question I'm asked frequently by web site visitors). > > 3. What about his relationship with Albert Hofmann and LSD? Drugs, what > drugs? > > 4. What did Helmut Kohl see in him? > > 5. What was his best book? > > 6. His relationship to Hitler and the Third Reich (oh, let's just cite > Heimo Schwilk ;-) > > 7. What did he do in the First World War? > > 8. And as for inner emigration and resistance (right, for this one we'll > have a paragraph from Bertill and one from Roberto). > > 9. Why do the French seem to like him and his work more than the Germans? > > - well, that sort of basic question. The FAQ is an interesting genre which > feigns objectivity and posesses nothing of the sort, but that should not > deter us... > > Regards from Oxford, object of its own personality cult :-) No, Oxford is > not at all obsessed with itself... > > JK > > ============================================================================== > John King > St. John's College > GB - Oxford OX1 3JP > ============================================================================== > > >
