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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.
Dec 27, 2021 · At the age of 101, in his penultimate year of life, Ernst Jünger converted to Catholicism, and died lauded as a prophet of European unification, fêted by dignitaries like Kohl and Mitterand. The anarch died as he lived, both at odds with and celebrated by the disastrous century his life embodied, a dissident thinker of great esoteric power ...
Ernst Jünger 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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Dec 14, 2018 · The long-lived and controversial Ernst Jünger made his military name in 1914-18 as the youngest officer to win Germany’s highest honour, the Pour le Mérite.
Feb 20, 2019 · As those Anglo-Saxons and their allies advance eastward into Germany, Jünger has visions – he is a devoted recorder of dreams – of Europe’s ancient settlements replaced by “cities that are the brainchildren of engineers”. Like many pan-Europeans, he is firmly anti-American, loathing the prospect of a mass consumer society.
May 8, 2020 · The consensus to the meaning behind Junger's statement was a commentary of his own reality as a self appointed warrior-scholar - the German Republic of today is period of brief, peaceful intermission into whatever comes next, but Junger's heart still lives in the Germany, more so, the world at large that had existed for thousands of years prior ...
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Dec 14, 2022 · They live apart from the simmering chaos, high up on the Marble Cliffs. The novel was immediately received as an allegory for the rise of the Third Reich, but as Jünger points out in a postscript, “People understood, even in occupied France, that ‘this shoe fit several feet.’”.
