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World War II. Ernst Jünger (German pronunciation: [ɛʁnst ˈjʏŋɐ]; 29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. The son of a successful businessman and chemist, Jünger rebelled against an affluent ...
Ernst Jünger (born March 29, 1895, Heidelberg, Ger.—died Feb. 16, 1998, Wilflingen) was a German novelist and essayist, an ardent militarist who was one of the most complex and contradictory figures in 20th-century German literature. Jünger joined the French Foreign Legion in 1913, but his father had him brought back to Germany.
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May 8, 2020 · These were the words spoken by Ernst Junger to an interviewer during the 90th year of his life. Though the "Reich", German for "empire", could refer to any number of things, such as the medieval Imperium of the Holy Roman Empire, the short lived German Empire of the late 19th century and early 20th, or the Third Reich of Nazi-controlled Germany.
Jun 26, 2023 · A morally compromised writer can project a strange kind of honesty—especially when his society is compromised to the same degree. By Alex Ross. June 26, 2023. Jünger produced far-right ...
Dec 18, 2015 · Abstract. As a singular witness and actor of the tumultuous 20th century, Ernst Jünger remains a controversial and enigmatic figure known above all for his vivid autobiographical accounts of experience in the trenches of the First World War. This article will argue that throughout his entire oeuvre, from personal diaries to novels and essays ...
Jul 6, 2017 · This review article explores three interconnected texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by the German intellectual Ernst Jünger: Copse 125, Total Mobilisation and The Worker. Dominion and Form. They contain his original analyses of the relationship between war, destruction, organisation and technology. Jünger argued that entering the realm of ...
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Feb 21, 2019 · This chapter discusses the life and work of Ernst Jünger, who was part of a strain in modern German conservatism that tested the limits of modernity and Enlightenment rationality. He catapulted to fame as a young man on the basis of his World War I memoirs, In Storms of Steel , which made him part of the antidemocratic forces of the Weimar Republic, but he retreated into the inner emigration ...
