Ebook {Epub PDF} Eumeswil by Ernst Jünger

Eumeswil, ostensibly a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, is effectively a comprehensive synthesis of Ernst Jünger’s mature thought, with a particular focus on new and achievable forms of individual freedom in a technologically monitored and managed postmodern world. Here Jünger first fully develops his figure of the anarch, the inwardly liberated and outwardly pragmatic individual, who lives Brand: Telos Press Publishing. Jünger's insights can function as a valuable roadmap to freedom and meaning for individuals in today's social and spiritual landscape. Crucial is his figure of the autonomous and inwardly-free anarch (in contrast to the impotent and self-destructive anarchist) as presented in his important novel EUMESWIL. Eumeswil, ostensibly a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, is effectively a comprehensive synthesis of Ernst Jünger's mature thought, with a particular focus on new and achievable forms of individual freedom in a technologically monitored and managed postmodern world. Here Jünger first fully develops his figure of the anarch, the inwardly liberated and outwardly pragmatic individual, who lives /5(57).

A note on Ernst Jünger's Eumeswil. Ernst Jünger () was one of the most controversial figures in twentieth-century Germany. At eighteen he ran away from home and joined the Foreign Legion. Brought back by his father, at nineteen he became an infantry officer at the outbreak of the first World War. He was wounded several times and. Eumeswil - Kindle edition by Ernst Jünger, Russell A. Berman, Joachim Neugroschel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Originally published in Germany in, when Junger was eighty-two years old, Eumeswil is the great novel of Junger's creative maturity, a masterpiece by a. Excellent Hermitix podcast interview with Russell Berman talking to.

This classic book, by the protean Ernst Jünger, is often taken to be a libertarian manifesto. That is entirely wrong. (The written version of this review wa. If Ernst Jünger is my most valued author, Eumeswil is certainly his most important work for me. It is the bible of all Jünger thought and can be read and re-read for literally decades. As one matures, one gets more from this dense compendium of philosophical, historical, mythical, mystical, even spiritual insights. Eumeswil, ostensibly a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, is effectively a comprehensive synthesis of Ernst Jünger’s mature thought, with a particular focus on new and achievable forms of individual freedom in a technologically monitored and managed postmodern world.