Re: Juenger query

[Denis Wall <dwall@chass.utoronto.ca>]

On Thu, 24 Apr 1997 scott.denham@rzhub.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote:

> Anyway, I was curious about the bibliography on the English
> translation of Der Arbeiter (The Worker... SUNY Press 1990). Curious
> that it's not in Muehleisen, curious that I've never heard of it,
> since I know of a new possible translation project of Der Arbeiter. 
> 
> Anyone seen this book? Know where it can be had (via interlibrary
> loan). The SUNY Press www site has no record of it in either the HTML
> backlist nor in the list of series by title. An e-mail query to SUNY
> Press hasn't been answered yet, but I'll pass on what I hear from
> them. 
> 
> Here is the info from Amazon.com:
> " Worker : Dominion and Gestalt : And, Maxima-Minima :
> Additional Notes to the Worker (Suny Series in Contemporary
> Continental Philosophy) 
>                     by Ernst Junger
>                     Hardcover
>                     Published by State Univ of New York Pr
>                     Publication date: January 1992
>                     ISBN: 0791404099
> 
Curious indeed.  Should we wonder if, in fact, SUNY Press has ever
published this book?  If so, who was the translator (i.e. if it's a
translation of _Der Arbeiter_ and not an interpretation).  I quickly
consulted Thomas Nevin's new book on Junger (1996), thinking he might have
referred to an english translation.  He writes on page 115 that it "was
never translated into english".  Another clue as to the book's dubious
translated status is that there seems to be no consensus on how to
translate the subtitle:  Nevin refers to it as "Mastery and Form"; while
Russell Berman, in an earlier article titled "Written Right Across their
Faces" translates it as "Domination and Form".

Denis Wall
University of Toronto