_Konservatismens veje og vildveje_ (The Roads and Off Roads of Conservatism)(Ed. Svend Gunbak and Mikael Jalving), 175 p., Gunbak Paperbacks, Denmark, 1998. _________________________________________ This is another book in the growing trail of books in Scandinavia that deals in whole or partly with "radical conservatism" in Germany between the world wars. An historian at Copenhagen University Institute of History, Adam Holm, has recently published a lengthy article in the Danish "Historisk Tidskrift" (History Review; No 1/1998) in which he deals to some extent with Ernst Juenger's nationalist period. In Scandinavia the right wing movements in Germany in the 1920s have come to be termed "radical conservative". In the contribution in _Konservatismens veje og vildveje_ Holm concentrates on Oswald Spengler, Ernst Juenger and Ernst Niekisch. Holm portrays Spengler and Juenger as two opposites. Spengler admired the past golden age, the farmer and the seclusion of the aristocratic bourgeois while Juenger preferred the unknown future, "the worker" as a body of society and movement of the masses. Spengler was, according to Holm, a typical German reactionary conservative nationalist while Juenger was an anticonservative futuristic nationalist with certain left wing ideas. Holm wants to show the difference between "radical conservatives" and conservatives. For those reading a Scandinavian language this is a good opportunity to take a look at a recent Scandinavian view of Juenger and some of his contemporaries. Bertil Haggman bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se
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