ernst jünger in cyberspace

mailing list archive - Re: fgj, ej FAQ

VGI!
(Very Good Idea)
Thanks, John!
Andreas

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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
>
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