[Juenger-list] Die Totale Mobilmachung and Japan

[Bertil Häggman bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se]

Recently I was made aware of the Japanese philosoper
Kojin Karatani (he has a webpage of his own, www.karataniforum.org).
A lecture of his, "Japan is interesting because Japan is not
interesting", of March 1997, is available on the net.

Here the following statement (in the beginning) can be find:

"For Junger, soldiers are workers, and workers are soldiers.
It is well-known that Junger's essay on total mobilization=20
deeply affected Heidegger, but few know that the idea
of total mobilization in Japan owed much to it."

In my bibliography of EJ from 1985 I can find no translation
of Die Totale Mobilmachung into Japanese, but of course
the essay could certainly be read in German in the 1930s
Japan. Can anyone say if there is a Japanese translation
in the later, extended bibliography?

To refresh memories a few quotes from the 1930 essay:

"In dieser absoluten Erfassung der potentiellen Energie,
die die kriegfuehrenden Industriestaaten in vulkanische
Schmiedewerkst=E4tten verwandelt, deutet sich der Anbruch
des Arbeitszeitalters vielleicht am sinnf=E4lligsten an...es ist
eine Ruestung bis ins innerste Mark, bis in den feinsten
lebensnerv erforderlich. Sie zu verwirklichen, ist die
Aufgabe der Totalen Mobilmachung, eines Aktes,
durch den das weit verzweighte und vielfach ge=E4derte
Stromnetz des modernen Lebens durch einen einzigen Griff
am Schaltbrett dem grossen Strom der kriegerischen Energie
zugleitet wird."

It is, BTW, interesting to note that at least in Sweden the
vocabulary of EJ exists in the defense sector. The term
"total defense" (totalfoersvar) is commonly used to describe
the Swedish effort to involve all sectors of society in the
modern defense effort. It is of course some kind of Total
Mobilization of all defense efforts. Interestingly the opposite term,
"totale Kriegfuehrung (total warfare), was a common term
in the national socialist era.

With Juengerian greetings