Re: fgj, ej FAQ

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Date sent:      	Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:08:44 +0000 (GMT)
From:           	John King <john.king@st-johns.oxford.ac.uk>
To:             	ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk
Subject:        	fgj, ej FAQ
Send reply to:  	ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk



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
> 
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