JÜnger, Ernst
Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) was a German soldier and a controversial author who was best known for his militarism and prophetic descriptions of a new world being create...
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JÜnger, Ernst(1895–1998)
Ernst Jünger was a German novelist and cultural critic who, by embracing total war as an exemplary pattern of life, helped to prepare the ideology of the ...
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Biography EssayThe soldier-philosopher, a combination with which ancient civilizations such as those of Greece and Rome were quite comfortable, has become a rarity in the modern age of progressive ove...
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The German author Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) was one of the most original and influential German writers and intellectuals of the 20th century.Ernst Jünger was born on March 29, 1895, in Heide...
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The soldier-philosopher, a combination with which ancient civilizations such as those of Greece and Rome were quite comfortable, has become a rarity in the modern age of progressive overspecialization...
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In the following review, Clair asserts that Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs "is an anti-Nazi document, but it is also one of the most beautiful novels of imagination of modern Germa...
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In the following review, McGonigle discusses Jünger's Aladdin's Problem and asserts that "through the power of fiction and the authority of a long life's experience,...
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In the following review, Buruma traces Jünger's political and intellectual thought throughout his career and in his novels Aladdin's Problem and A Dangerous Encounter.
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In the following essay, Keller discusses the place of destructiveness and compassion in Jünger's work.
Destructiveness is one theme which is ever present in the work of Ernst Jü...
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In the following excerpt, McGonigle asserts that in Eumeswil "Jünger is concerned solely with attempting to answer the question: How is one to live?"
… Ernst Jüng...
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In the following essay, Peters discusses the theme of terror in the works of Jünger and Edgar Allen Poe.
Frequent references to E. A. Poe in the works of Ernst Jünger, particularly in...
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In the following essay, Cooley traces the place of adventure in Jünger's life and work.
Ernst Jünger's career as an author has been built around the search for adventure...
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In the following essay, Evans, Jr. discusses the plot and philosophy behind Jünger's Auf den Marmorklippen, and asserts that Jünger believes "in the power of civilizing ene...
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In the following essay, Bullock explores Jünger's ideas about the use of drugs and intoxication in intellectual thought.
When the editors of Mircea Eliade's Festschrift of 1969...
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In the following essay, Berman discusses the fascist representation of Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will and the fascist modernism of Jünger's The Worker.
If the will...
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In the following essay, Ohana analyzes how "the modern Jüngerian vision of technology led towards a new political form of totalitarian nihilism."
The aesthetic-nihilistic revol...
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In the following essay, Keller traces the influence of Rimbaud's "Le Bateau ivre" on Jünger's work.
Looking back to the First World War, Jünger documents h...
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In the following review, Lotozo praises Jünger's Aladdin's Problem.
He has been recognized as one of the great figures of 20th-century German letters, yet after more than 70 ye...
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Jünger, Ernst
Jünger, Ernst (1895–1998)
Ernst Jünger
Ernst Junger
Critical Review by Louis Clair
