Hi all, came across the following items in works on "other" subjects: 1. in, Eric J. Leed, "No Man's Land: Combat and Identity in World War 1" (Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 257pp. pp- 146-150 discuss "Sturm" and "Das Waeldchen 125" in terms of the depictions of underground warfare as a space of liberation from the alienating realities of trench warfare. Leed manages to suggest that "Sturm" is J's "first and worst war novel" and that "W125" is "his best war novel". Methinks he got confused there. pp. 150-163 are a sub-chapter entitled "Ernst Jünger and the Myth of the Machine". Contains a number of factual errors and the interpretation isn't exactly big news. Otherwise, Leed's book is excellent reading on the First World War from a viewpoint best described as a history of "mentality". 2. Norbert Bolz. "Auszug aus der entzauberten Welt. Philosophischer Extremismus zwischen den Weltkriegen" (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1991 = 2. unveraenderte Auflage, 1. Auflage 1989). pp. 161-169 "Der Held der entauberten Welt" is on Juenger - mostly on "Der Arbeiter". Bolz groups together Bloch, Lukacs, Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, Heidegger, Juenger and Benn as "Deserteure der Neuzeit" (p. 11). As such, his work provides quite a different perspective from Christian Graf von Krockow's "Die Entscheidung" on Heidegger, Schmitt and Juenger who equates decisionism with an escape from historicist relativism. BTW, six weeks to go! Gruss, JK ============================================================================== John King St. John's College GB - Oxford OX1 3JP ==============================================================================
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