[Juenger-list] EJ and Conservative Revolution (CR)

[mvk575b@tninet.se (=?Windows-1252?Q?Bertil_H=E4ggman?=)]

Having just reviewed a new book "Stand und Probleme
der Erforschung des Konservatismus" (2000) in Swedish=20
media I came to think of the fact that in one of the chapters of the =
book
there is much mentioning of EJ.

It is Karlheinz Weissmann's  "Die Konservative Revolution -
Forschungsstand und Desiderata". Here EJ is described
as "the last great representative" of the CR. Weissmann notes
that in the writings on EJ on the occassion of his death in 1998
few made the connection between EJ and the CR. That has not
been the case in Sweden, for instance, where almost all writings
on EJ are connected to the 1920s. Sometimes I think I am the
only writer in Sweden presenting the later works of EJ. But how=20
closely was EJ really connected to the CR?

The question is brought up by Weissmann if the CR really was
"conservative". The CR was in opposition to the modern but=20
"von dem fuer die Moderne typischen Voluntarismus und
Aesthetizimus durchdrungen..., von Konservatismus
im historischen-spezifischen Sinne kann keine Rede mehr sein."

Further: "Es fuehr kein Weg daran vorbei: 'Konservative Revolution'
ist ein unhaltbarer Begriff, der mehr Verwirrung als Klarheit
stiftet. Es sollte deshalb aus der Liste der politischen Stroemungen
des 20. Jh. gestrichen werden."

Weissmann is mainly referring to Stefan Breuer and Rolf Peter Sieferle.
Breuer believes that "new nationalism" is a better term than the CR and =
that
there are three other positions within the CR - "aesthetic =
fundamentalists"
(the George group), 'neoaristocrats' and 'planetary imperialists' (I am =
not sure
if B. means Haushofer?).

It would be interesting with any views on these terminological =
questions.

With Juengerian greetings

Bertil=20