-----Original Message----- From: Gary Kern [SMTP:gkern@ucr.campus.mci.net] Sent: November 29, 1997 4:48 PM To: ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk Subject: Re: Old and New EJ Bertil Haggman wrote: > > Thomas Friese wrote: > > > Can't resist a last comment: why so much discussion on the old Junger and so little on the recent works, which are surely the product of an even wiser and more mature author - force of habit? > > It is not true that this list > is discussing the old EJ to > a greater extent than the new. I suppose each reader brings his own personal bias to every perception and mine is certainly directed to the most recent works - admittedly beyond a balance. Would the name of our Association be any hint? And I will even assert that in retrospect "Eumeswil" will be seen as the most valuable, most essential work. It is still too recent to have received the attention that the older works have, and perhaps it also aims further than all the others, making it less accessible. (Junger is certainly one of those authors who will receive more recognition as we and our society catch up with his ideas. ) > Personally I have been writing > far too much on the list but my > contributions have mainly focused on the EJ of the 1980s and 1990s. > > Greetings > > Bertil Haggman ********************************** It seems to me that the list is fairly well-balanced, though the early war-works rightly command a lot of attention. Outside the list, however, I detect in my random reading a desire to use the military works against Jünger, to make him a Nazi or something detestable for various dark reasons. Patience ...this situation can only improve as his prognoses gradually become recognized for their truth value, and as we gain a more distant and objective impression of the Wars period in general. As I suggested sometime back, the same thing has been done with Heinrich Harrer, author of SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET and the subject of the film by that name. A man's many decades of remarkable work, his maturity and wisdom count for nothing to miserable scandle-mongers, who want to make a flashy name for themselves. Solzhenitsyn has long been the subject of such attacks, and probably any outstanding independent thinker will draw the nettling flies. Incidentally, someone in the JL (Jünger List) recently whispered something about our hero being old and perhaps, excuse me, not long for this earth. I regard such remarks as very insubstantial. Ernst Jünger, as we all know, is unsterblich. GK By the way, how did your conference on nanotechnology and The Glass Bees go? Any interesting material you can pass this way? Lots of interested people here!
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