Juenger and Goethe

[Bertil Haggman <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

In 1824 Goethe said according to Eckerman _Gespraeche_:

"I have had the great advantage to be born in a time, when the great
world events were placed on the agenda and continued to be placed
during my long life, so that I was a living witness to the Seven Years
War, the partition of America from England, the French Revolution, the
whole Napoleonic era
to the ruin of the hero and the following events. Through this I have
come to quite different results and insights than have been possible for
all
those, who are born now and must acquire knowledge of all those events
through
books they do not understand."

"The similar situation for those in my age", wrote Juenger in his diary
on 21
June 1985, "would be: the European concert with its princes, the high
colonialism, the first and second world wars with the revolutions, that
followed, especially the Russian, the transition of the old states into 
great spaces and the reduction to two world powers to the final
conclusion
of Goethe in 1824.

That would all be possible to accept historically without
the tremendous and often invisible progress of natural sciences and
their effect on technology, not only in historical, but also in
geological
sense."

Is this the only similarity between Goethe and Juenger or are there
others ?

Wishing all on the list a pleasant summer reading, what else, Juenger.

Greeetings

Bertil Haggman
bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se