Re: SV: [ejlist] _Das Jahrhundert verstehen - EineuniversalhistorischeDeutung_

[VanKeuken@aol.com]

Dear Bertil,
as I have tried to give a definition of Juenger's poetical relevance and his 
political irrelevance, I was aiming at the term "weltbuergerkrieg" which 
you've brought into the game, and, as I understand this term, it is an 
explicitly political term. Talking in political terms I still can't find any 
instrument or specific insight in Juenger's works to interpret this century 
politically or in historical terms. No doubt about the fact that he some kind 
of eclectically picks up some points of Spengler, some of the early Baeumler, 
some of Schmitt, some of Driesch, some of the "Gestaltpsychologie", later 
Bloy, and a lot of his brother's thoughts and so on and so on, but you can 
find all these eclectic parts with much more stringency in their own works. 
To go on, the way Juenger combines all that stuff doesn't create a new style 
of thinking or analyzing at all, as far as I see (maybe it's not far enough, 
o.k., but I would like to get some beating examples if there are any).
Of course Juenger is a poet,  he is a poet in a very emphatic sense, or what 
would be your definition of a poet? And as a poet he is to be regarded a very 
important one of this century, but as philosopher or even political 
philosopher? I think in debating Juenger's work we should keep away from 
hagiography. I think Juenger himself was quite modest in these questions, his 
(literary) position was that of an observer by attitude.
Waiting for your arguments,
Yours KvK