Re: EJ a convert?

[Richard Brem <llr@magnet.at>]

-- [ From: Richard Brem * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --

Rebing wrote: 

>I cannot find anything in EJ's character as I perceive it in his life and
>his writings that would make seem the possibility of such a >manoeuvre
plausible... The Anarch who passed through the >institutions of this world
ever eager to preserve his inner 
>freedom should finally have succumbed to THAT institution and >even be
ashamed of it?

I have my doubts about a formal conversion, but it wouldn't come out of the
blue. Juenger has flirted with Catholicism in the 20s after reading Huysmans
(see "Strahlungen 2": 27.2.45 and "Siebzig verweht 4": 28.6.87 for details).
I would also like to mention his high regard for Leon Bloy (= leading
exponent of the "renouveau catholique") and his close friendship with Carl
Schmitt ("Roman Catholicism and Political Form"). And the characters of
Father Lampros (in "On the Marble Cliffs") and Pater Foelix (in "Heliopolis"
) always seemed to me to be pretty catholic as well. 

Perhaps we have to wait till Heimo Schwilk sets it all straight in his
forthcoming biography on EJ. 

Regards,
RB
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                                  Red Army Faction
                              (14.5.1970 - 20.4.1998)

"What interested me was how similar these two routes are, 
smack and terrorism. They're both self-destructive, and they're 
both romantic, and in a funny way they're both egotistical. And 
they both hurt a lot of other people. It's the same kind of pain in 
each: I just turned on myself while Ulrike Meinhof turned it on society." -
Marianne Faithful   

"Eure Sprache ist wie Beton. Fest verbarrikadiert gegen kritisches Denken,
gegen Gefuehle und gegen jede Wirklichkeit, die sich ihren erstarrten
Begriffen nicht fuegen will ... Ihr setzt die moerderische Tradition derer
fort, die sich fuer Auserwaehlte der Wahrheit halten, in deren Namen sie die
schlimmsten Verbrechen begehen. Ihr seid auf dem schlechtesten Weg. Gegen
Unrecht und Gewalt, die von  Staaten und Regierungen ausgehen, werdet ihr
mit Euerem Terror am wenigsten ausrichten. Einer menschenwuerdigen Welt
werdet Ihr uns mit Euren Morden kein Stueck naeher bringen. Hoert auf. Kommt
zurueck. Habt den Mut, Euer geistiges Mordwerkzeug zu ueberpruefen. Es haelt
der Pruefung nicht stand. Treffend sind nicht Eure Argumente, treffend sind
nur Eure Kugeln. Ihr habt das Abscheulichste und Sinnloseste getan." - Open
letter to the Red Army Faction by the brothers of Gerold von Braunmuehl,
killed by a RAF commando in 1986 

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