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juenger-list@juenger.orgRight you are, Nick! Guenter
LMorphia@aol.com schrieb:
> Greetings all,
>
> If I may be allowed to quote from two of Richard's postings:
>
> << [T]hese "mystical" aspects form an integral and essential part of 
> Juenger's philosophy. There's no way of ignoring or belittling them.  [...] 
> You miss the point completely. Juenger is not about "Realpolitik" [...] and 
> to use the term "business" in connection with Juenger is, let's say, 
> problematic as well. >>
>
> For what it's worth, I agree entirely.  To view Jünger as some kind of 
> political analyst not only misses the point, but also belittles the man and 
> his work.  The mystical elements that beat at the heart of EJ's ouevre are, I 
> believe, more than simple imagery, but are indicative of a tendency towards a 
> kind of spiritualised romanticism and a highly indvidualistic 
> "Innerlichkeit".  Jünger may have addressed contemporary issues, but he 
> always did so from a trans-temporal perspective, which was informed by his 
> interest in the atavistic and the mythical.  Even the most cursory glance at 
> the writings produced during his hotly debated nationalist phase reveals an 
> attitude far removed from "Realpolitik".  EJ constantly places emphasis on 
> the irrational, "spiritual" aspects of life.  I feel that his dynmaic, 
> vitalistic language, whilst rooted in the "jugendbewegt" Lebensphilosophie so 
> beloved of the Conservative Revolution, indicates clearly the metaphysical 
> nature of Jünger's thought.  A few brief examples: the New Man described in 
> "Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis" may portray an actual historical "type", but 
> it is couched in spiritual, transcendental terminology.  This results in the 
> ex-Frontkämpfer being mythologised to the point of apotheosis.  Did not the 
> "political" Jünger constantly talk of listening to the instict, to the blood, 
> rather than to the cold, soulless rationality of the hated, bourgeois 
> Kaiserreich?  What are the proto-psychedelic landscapes of "In 
> Stahlgewittern" if not a dream-like, almost drunken impression of something 
> that occurred in time and space?
>
> Anyway, time is against me, so... just my two Pfennigs!
>
> In Amicitia,
>
> Nick.
>
>