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      • He would serve again on the German side in the Second World War—even though he published a famous anti-Hitler novel. Yet alongside that military career, Jünger spent a lifetime with consciousness-enhancing experiments—hashish, cocaine, and morphine until he worked his way to LSD, psilocybin, and peyote.
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  2. 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.

  3. Jan 9, 2023 · In Approaches, Ernst Jünger documents an array of drug experiences, placing them in a richly intellectual context of cultural transformations and the literary history of drug use as well as art historical reflections on hallucinatory elements in Van Gogh, cubism, and surrealism.

  4. 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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  5. May 8, 2020 · Junger first gained fame for his incredible acts of valor and bravery during the first World War, fighting in Northern France and Belgium on the Western Front on behalf of the German Empire. He would also go on to use his wartime diary and writings to compose The Storm of Steel (1920), which gained fame in Germany and around the world. He would ...

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    World War Ileft a lasting impression on Jünger. Three characteristics of that conflict shaped his view of the world: the destructive power of the new armaments, their lethality, and the consequential subordination of individual courage to the power of machines. In the end whoever made the best use of the war industry would be victorious. The new we...

    Jünger's Auf den Marmorklippen (1939) is a covert criticism of National Socialist tyranny. A poetic and obscure book that seems to aestheticize violence, it presents types more than concrete characters and in that way achieves a general critique of totalitarianism. Indeed, by the time of the 1938 Krystall Nacht(the Nazi attack on Jewish businesses ...

    Jünger, Ernst. (1920). In Stahlgewittern. [Storm of steel]. Translated into English by Basil Creighton. (1929). Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front.Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Jünger, Ernst. (1931). Die Totale Mobilmachung. Translated into English by Joel Golb and Richard Wolin. (1993). "Total Mobiliz...

  6. Oct 27, 2014 · Ernst Jünger's name is usually associated with his masterpiece, the realistic account of his wartime experience entitled Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern, 1920), as well as his following literary representations of the Great War on the Western Front in Copse 125 (Das Wäldchen 125, 1925) and Fire and Blood (Feuer und Blut, 1925). And yet he ...

  7. Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) was a German writer whose first book was published in 1920 and his last in 1973. The first, In Stahlgewittern: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Stoßtruppführers (1920), translated by Basil Creighton as The Storm of Steel (1929) and as by Michael Hofmann as Storm of Steel (Penguin, 2004), was based heavily on his own experience ...

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