VGI! (Very Good Idea) Thanks, John! Andreas -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: John King <john.king@st-johns.oxford.ac.uk> An: ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk <ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk> Datum: Freitag, 12. Februar 1999 10:21 Betreff: fgj, ej FAQ >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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