Re: EJ and Greens

[e-ensign <e-ensign@thing.net>]

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>Here a question for germans or those guys from the list interested >in
German politics. Considering the irruption of Greens in the >German
Goverment, and the usually bad relations between EJ and >leftists, I would
like to know what do the Greens consider about EJ? >I mean his leaders like
Joshka Fischer. 

Believe it or not: Joschka Fischer (i.e. Germany's new Foreign Secretary /
Secretary of State and the leading strategist of the left-wing Greens) is an
expert on Juenger. He was one of the few within the Green party who defended
Juenger when he was heavily attacked by Green fundamentalists like Jutta von
Ditfurth at the time of the Goethe Prize controversy in 1982 (he even wrote
an article pro Juenger in the alternative "Pflasterstrand" magazine, I think
I got a copy of it somewhere). It must be said, though, that he has
developped a more critical attitude toward Juenger in recent years (as could
be seen in a 1995 documentary on EJ, for which Fischer was interviewed).
Rumour has it, however, that Fischer is still very much into Carl Schmitt. 

"the usually bad relations between EJ and leftists" might be a bit of a
cliche. My impression is that a lot of the more interesting and stimulating
interpretation of Juenger's work is actually happening on the Left - just
read what people like Massimo Cacciari (a former member of the Central
Committee of the Italian Communist Party and now mayor of Venice), Peter
Glotz (a prominent ideologist of the German Social Democrats) or the late
Heiner Mueller have written about EJ.

Regards,

RBR

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