Re: [ejlist] _Das Jahrhundert verstehen - Eine universalhistorischeDeutung_

[VanKeuken@aol.com]

---> Dan Diner, Ernst Juenger, and the "Weltbuergerkrieg"
Concerning the term and interpretation of "Weltbuergerkrieg" you should deal 
with Carl Schmitt more than with Ernst Juenger; Schmitt is much more relevant 
in his ideas and political thinking than the "poet" Ernst Juenger. It's well 
known that Schmitt backed the National-Socialist Workers' Party and was quite 
an opportunist in his behaviour; nevertheless his intellectual attitude and 
analysis is as important as Karl Marx's "real" work (which is not "marxist" 
at all btw).
I can't find any intellectual profit, nor specific insight, in trying to 
analyse modern times by reading Ernst Juenger's rather poetically and 
mythologically grounded essays and prose after "Der Arbeiter"; that's not 
much help, is it?
On the other hand side Ernst Juenger definitely is a poet, (you need not to 
write poems to act as a poet); actually it is his vague ambiguity as some 
kind of poetical principle of construction that allows a lot of different 
interpretations of his works. Its ambiguity includes let's say a certain 
range of "interfaces" or at least "ports" for data transfer. This 
input/output potentiality makes Juenger's works "good" in a literary sense.
With regard to political analysis there's no good to try this in poetical or 
mythological terms at all (that would be the old-fashioned "German" point of 
view that led to the "Goetterdaemmerung" in Berlin, finis Germaniae); in 
politics you need a pragmatic attitude (an old style "British" and nowadays 
US-American attitude). Juenger should be taken as poet, not as political 
analyst.
Best regards:
KvK