Ernst Junger
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Grave New World November 27, 2023
Ernst Jünger’s World War I narrative Storm of Steel was first published in 1920. Other titles appearing that year include Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, and D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love; T. S. E...
A Fable for Our Time May 16, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "A Fable for our Time" by Matthew Pheneger, published at Law & Liberty. By the time of his death at the age of 101, the German author and veteran soldier Ernst Jünger had written enough to fill eighteen volumes...
Ernst Jünger, Conservative Psychonaut March 22, 2023
Ernst Jünger is increasingly recognized as one of the great conservative writers and thinkers of the 20th century. It might surprise some of his admirers, then, that he indulged extensively in psychoactive drugs throughout his life. His account of th...
The Long Century of Ernst Jünger March 16, 2023
Ernst Jünger is the intractable land mine of German literature. Demolition squads of scholars have stencil-brushed the casing and every wire of the corpus; warning tape encircles the mother lode of fifty books, which are still capable of sending read...
"On the Marble Cliffs" by Ernst Jünger January 30, 2023
Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. The narrator of the book and his brother, Otho, live in an ancient house carved out of the great marble cli...
Rereading Ernst Jünger December 15, 2022
Some people live more history than others: born in Heidelberg in 1895, the German literary giant Ernst Jünger survived a stint in the French Foreign Legion, the rise of the Third Reich, two world wars, fourteen flesh wounds, the death of his son (lik...
A Dandy Goes to War October 01, 2019
Nazi Germany produced two wartime diaries of equal literary and historical significance but written from the most different perspectives conceivable. Victor Klemperer wrote furtively, in daily dread of transport to an extermination camp, a fate he wa...
