Jünger list, Now online is *"Freedom Ablaze: Ernst Jünger and Michel Foucault's Concept of Force"*, originally published in the UK philosophy journal PLI, Volume 17: Ultrapolitics: Biopower, Sovereignty and Total Mobilisation (ISBN 1 897646 13 5).
The essay can be viewed at: http://www.kevinsodergren.com ABSTRACT This essay compares the philosophy of Ernst Jünger and Michel Foucault. Specifically, it is claimed that both philosophers inherit from Nietzsche the ontology of a world comprised of force, and that the world's scaffolding of knowledge may only be successfully traversed by the critical observer who recognizes the vital instrumentality of the "self" specific to its own cultural, socio-political, and historical surfaces of emergence. It is argued that the intersection between these two philosophers rests on their critique of modernity; especially how each opts to archaeologically and genealogically uncover systems of knowledge within fields of force, and how each claims these systems are to be navigated. By offering a reconceptualization of value and a self-acknowledged susceptibility to critique, both Jünger and Foucault successfully establish a concept of freedom which is compatible with the identification of historical limits within zones of force.
