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 ==============================================================================
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