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> Also mentionable is my forthcoming book about Nietzsche, Heidegger, and
> Juenger. If you would like I could post some sections from that
> mentioning
> that triage affinity. Most notable is Heidegger’s “Pathmarks”

You'd be most welcome to post them.

> Does this make Juenger a Post-Modern? (John -you should jump to that
> question you relatavist!)

I already did ;-) Cf.
http://www.juenger.org/pdf/thesis_by_chapter/9_sturm.pdf

I'm afraid I can't really go into a detailed debate on post-modernism at the
moment (I've been working in IT for too long to have the details of the
debates all at my finger tips any more). Anyway, I quite liked writing that
chapter...

Ultimately, of course, Jünger wasn't a post-modernist but turned instead to
the entrenched (pun intended) certainties of Catholic dogma. However, one
could surely also read much (but by no means all) of Jünger's work as an
attempt to arrive at a stable meta-position from which to the survey the
world across time and space. In a way, that then makes his Annäherungen far
less subversive than many would have.

Regards,

John

BTW - virtual PC now nicely installed and networked.



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