Re: Juenger and Goethe

[HARDIETZ@aol.com]

You can find everything in Goethe and the opposite of it, I heard someone
say.
So, there must be some Goethe words concerning Juenger too  :-)  

'Nemo contra deum nisi Deus ipse' - one of the motti in Dichtung und Wahrheit
seems to be another version of  'Jeder ist Mittelpunkt der Welt' (Eumeswil
and earlier). Yet another version ( I obviously like that phrase but don't
trust it) is 'Mir geht in dieser Welt nichts ueber Mich' (from Goethes
'Wieland oder der vergoetterte Waldteufel', really). Max Stirner has stolen
that from there. If that phrase means 'anything goes', Goethe was one of the
first postmodernists, some years before modernism. So what is postmodernism?
A way to make a myth out of himself? 'Sie tapezieren mit sich selbst und
nichts kann sie erloesen' (Gottfried Benn).

Besides those historical remembrances I still would like to recommend Walter
Serner (rediscovered about 10 years ago), who belonged to Juengers
generation, just as Walter Benjamin.

And I too wish everyone on the list a good summer reading (a summer at all),
but not necessarily of Juenger alone: a kind of stereo view on this author
sometimes might be useful. Don't follow leaders is an old Bob Dylan line, on
another level of course.

Greetings
Hartmut Dietz