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Thread for translations.
The Boar Hunt - Ernst Jünger
Short Story
"Now everyone surrounded the prey in an oval, the marksmen with their rifles around their necks, the beaters with their axes shouldered."
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"Technology has ruined everything. Even war."
~ Ernst Jünger
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Ernst Jünger on his World War I helmet and the shot that could have killed him. And also the helmet of an English officer.
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Ernst Jünger on technology, language, and the end of classical war.
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"Three good resolutions. First, "Live moderately", because almost all of the difficulties in my life have been caused by a lack of moderation."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"The discovery of the poles is the first date of the end of the modern world."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"Is America perhaps the place where cultures go to die?
Such a statement would have been signed by Spengler."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"With every autumn comes the angel of melancholy."
~ Ernst Jünger
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Ernst Jünger's WWI coat.
It was common for soldiers to wear a talisman inside their coat like this.
Ultimate display of victory: like the hunter who keeps a talisman of a beast he successfully hunted, Jünger kept his talisman of a moment where death wanted to take him, but he won
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"Nietzsche’s Superman failed. My bet is on the artistic man, on the connection with the divine in general."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"My garden gives me more certainty than any philosophical system."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"If everything went wrong, conservative forces are to blame."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"During the First World War I was still a complete atheist. I remember that one day I found myself in front of a trench that was sustaining brisk fire. I had to get across it, and I mused that a prayer would be appropriate."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"Our brother man has often abandoned us, brother tree never has."
~ Ernst Jünger
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Carl Schmitt reading guide. I'd start with "The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations", short essay included in The Concept of the Political.
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Ernst Jünger's short essay "November" is now available:
"The days grow shorter, the night comes earlier; fire and light are rediscovered. It is a time of feasts for the dead, wanderings to the cemetery, and nightly visits from the gods."
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"My father retired before his 45th birthday. After that date, no one should work, everyone should devote themselves to their own pursuits – this was one of his sensible thoughts, which I fully agreed with and even secretly surpassed: it was better not to work at all."
~ Jünger
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"In war you learn your lessons, and they stay learned, but the tuition fees are high."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"Blood is the fuel that is consumed by the metaphysical flame of destiny."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"I regard what a father says at meals as more important than all schooling: in a way, my interest in history and my value judgments come from him."
~ Ernst Jünger
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“It is perfectly true that an Englishman will boast of having been robbed by telling you that at least his country has no mounted police."
~ Tocqueville
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"I always carry a coin with the image of Julian as Augustus."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"We reject all those efforts that try to support the ideas of race and blood rationally. Wanting to prove the worth of blood with the brain, with the means of modern natural sciences, is like letting the servant beget for the master."
~ Ernst Jünger, Blood
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Jünger Contra Marx
"Struggle is the law of life; the new vision of the world changes nothing but the fronts on which this takes place. The new generation does not care for the old antagonisms; it emerges as if on its own flank and cuts through the conflicts of the fathers."
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"Home emerges like light from the shadows, out of the uncanny."
~ Ernst Jünger
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Post a Jünger photo in this thread and for the best photo I will give away a year's subscription to the Jünger Translation Project.
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"Mao’s statement that “The atomic bomb is a paper tiger” represents one of the few brilliant maxims of our era. Lao-Tse could have said the same thing."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"Gradually we become conscious that "war" is something essentially other than it was in the time of our grandfathers. This alteration goes quite deep and holds something unsettling and uncanny."
~ Carl Schmitt
Ernst Jünger on technology, language, and the end of classical war.
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"The greatest step towards the dethroning of Europe was the Treaty of Versailles."
~ Carl Schmitt
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Jünger says of Schopenhauer that he may have been the only European able to contend with Christianity. And then a quote:
"Tormentor and tormented are one. The former is mistaken in thinking he does not share the torment, the latter in thinking he does not share the guilt."
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"Body-building, as effected by specialized sports, does not achieve beauty, because it lacks proportion, something a body devoted to special training no more can have than a mind narrowed down to highly specialized interests."
Jünger thread on sport and nihilism 🧵
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"At all times, people have listened attentively to the dying. Their words seem mantic, prophetic, almost a transmission, almost an order, like that of the exhausted runner handing over his torch."
~ Ernst Jünger
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Goethe, in an essay on Plato and Christianity, refers to old portrayals of horses without harness pulling a chariot. Such unrealistic depictions are necessary so as to not let the beautiful shape of the horse be spoiled by lines.
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"When legality is enough to save society, then legality; but when it is not, then dictatorship."
~ Donoso Cortés
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"Every animal is an end unto itself; it arises in perfect form
from the womb of nature and engenders perfect children.
All their limbs are formed in accordance with eternal laws,
and even the most unusual shape secretly preserves the original form."
~ Goethe
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"Thus you must be, you cannot escape yourself."
~ Goethe
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"Language is like water – it may become cloudy, but it has self-purifying power."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"The French Revolution brought true war closer to absolute war, blurring the line between politics and warfare."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"Bullets and books have their own destiny – they have to come at the right time."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"The cult of health and the cult of sickness are to the same degree unpleasant."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"My practice of war can be summed up in four propositions. First: I only attack causes that are victorious; I may even wait until they become victorious."
~ Nietzsche
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"The abandoned altars are inhabited by demons."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"America, you have it better
Than our old continent.
You have no tumbledown castles
And no basalt deposits.
Your present is not disturbed deep down by
Useless remembrance and vain strife."
~ Goethe
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"Music is time transformed into sound."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"I had a dog only once, a shepherdess; and it was strange how strongly the animal knew that it belonged to me, although I missed much about it. It died of distemper at the foot of my cot in one of the World War I quarters."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"In German, "rich" (reich) and "realm" (Reich) are of the same root. For "rich" here means no less than mighty, noble, regal, as one finds it in the Latin regius. And Reich is the same as the Latin rex, and the Sanskrit rajan, meaning king."
~ Friedrich Georg Jünger
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Ernst Jünger on chess, art, and artificial intelligence.
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"Ernst Jünger surpasses all of today's "poets" (i.e. writers) and "thinkers" (i.e. philosophers) in his decisiveness in seeing the real, in such a way that "seeing" is not watching, but is existentially enforced and known."
~ Martin Heidegger
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"Technology is the clothing of the titans."
~ Jünger
There is a similar image to this in anarcho-primitivism, that man begins to form an armour with the advance of technology. It is attached to his skin, painful to take off, causing a wound. A physicalist/materialist myth.
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"What is truly beautiful cannot but be ethical, and what is truly ethical cannot but be beautiful."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"December is not only night and cold; every year it touches life like the wing of a bird sure of its prey."
~ Ernst Jünger
Full essay available at the link below:
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Counter-Enlightenment Reading List now available
A lot of books here, I may write a short guide if there is interest. Generally speaking you can start with the philosophical, aesthetic, or political works.
See the link below:
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"Dreams about examinations. This kind of fright is too precise, too narrowly confined to be the result of memory alone. By contrast, why do impressions that are so much more powerful, like those of battle, return so seldom and so vaguely?"
~ Ernst Jünger
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"If everything went wrong, conservative forces are to blame."
~ Ernst Jünger
I have been researching Jünger's thoughts on conservatism and Germany's defeat. "Nationalism and National Socialism" is a good starting point here, although the conflict begins with the Peasants' War.
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"Does the cheering of the masses not resonate like a bass string with the approval of doom?"
~ Ernst Jünger
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A lot of false claims are made about the English translations of Storm of Steel. There are various reasons behind this, but the first thing to remember is that the original English edition is not the original in German.
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"On his deathbed, Bloy was asked what he felt as he faced death: “Une immense curiosité.”"
~ Jünger
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Ernst Jünger gave Carl Schmitt his nickname, "Don Capisco". And Schmitt nicknamed Jünger "Kapitän".
New translation of an interview later today which includes discussion of their friendship and also disagreement.
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"Caesarism began with the stabbing of Caesar, and our age, in the strict sense of the word, begins with the assassination in Sarajevo."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"The poet is one who completes and amplifies nature by eliminating part of what exists, enhancing the picture with touches supplied by his imagination, and blending together certain circumstances that, while real, are not ordinarily found in combination."
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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"What are standpoints when the avalanche comes down?"
~ Ernst Jünger
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"Soul of man,
how you resemble water!
Fate of man,
how you resemble the wind!"
- Goethe
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Our edition of On the Marble Cliffs is still available. It is translated by Stuart Hood who was friends with Jünger.
It is the superior translation and has the advantage of not trying to convince you that Jünger was evil, as in the NYRB introduction.
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Young Jünger.
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"The inclusum can expand. Hence the savage's terror during a solar eclipse. He is afraid that the huge star will be swallowed up."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"Richly gleaming, down below,
lie the lands that belong to him, and with him are
the youths striving for victory for the first time.
But he moderates
with the beat of his wings."
~ Hölderlin
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"Ortega responded skeptically to Heidegger that the term "Spanish philosopher" was already contradictory. And to Heidegger's question, "Why is this so?" he replied, "Do you think there can be a "German bullfighter"?"
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"The nihilistic outer skin – hygiene, shallow cults of the Sun, sport, cultivation of the body, in brief: an ethos of sterility unworthy of consideration."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"Theory is becoming more and more liberal, while practice is becoming more aversive."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"A gnome walks in and introduces himself as Caesar."
~ Ernst Jünger
Smol Account Saturday
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"The duel refines manners as censorship refines style."
~ Ernst Jünger
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“When Nietzsche says "For all joy wants eternity", this is a titanic valuation – the Titans are masters and connoisseurs of time. Fundamentally, however, joy does not want eternity, but time-destruction and timelessness.”
~ Jünger
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"But I told myself: "No, if I didn't care about the Good Lord when everything was going well, it would be awful to ask for his help now!""
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"First comes the degradation by words, then by deeds. Where liberalism reaches its outer limits it opens the door to murderers …"
~ Ernst Jünger
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"Has nature too grown bad,
And is she adopting human faults?
It seems to me that plants and animals
Now tell lies like everyone else."
~ Heine
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"In aristocratic centuries men turn to science particularly to gratify the mind; in democratic centuries they do so to gratify the body."
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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"Man, more than wanting to be understood, wants what is incomprehensible in him to be respected."
~ Ernst Jünger
Zeus Grotto. April 1971
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"If people had as little interest for me as I have for them, then everything would be fine.“
~ Ernst Jünger
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"Do you want to succumb once again to deception?"
~ Carl Schmitt
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"Self-delusion is inherent to loneliness. The solitary person thinks with himself and talks to himself, and in talking to ourselves, as we know, we are talking to a dangerous flatterer. The moralists were right to consider autobiography a sign of vanity."
~ Carl Schmitt
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"Machiavelli's Il Principe has little that immediately catches the eye. It has little of that which made other political thinkers famous: neither the depth and the nobility of the Platonic dialogues nor the systematic learnedness of the books of Aristotle."
~ Carl Schmitt
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Critics from the Right will attack Jünger as a liberal and traitor. I have always disputed this, and recently found a journal entry from the 1960s in which he refers to two choices of power imposed on Germany by the occupation force as "blackmail".
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"In our time, apart from democracy, only the military boot is sacrosanct."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"In aristocracies, men often possess a grandeur and strength that is all their own. When they find themselves at odds with a majority of their fellow men, they withdraw into themselves and there find support and consolation."
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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"Should I abandon problems and envy plants and animals?"
~ Carl Schmitt
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"Music is a clue of the impossible, its translation into the possible."
~ Ernst Jünger
New translation on music. Check the link below.
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Remember that Jordan Peterson's home is filled with Soviet paintings. They cover every wall like the Gorgon pediments of the Greeks because he fears socialism so much, but in the end it was democracy that destroyed his world.
This is why he is going mad,the Kra got him.
Read those, troll demons, and see who you are...
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“For I possessed four thousand bay horses in a stable; and I married a thousand damsels, of the daughters of Kings, high-bosomed virgins, like moons; and I was blessed with a thousand children, like stern lions;"
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J.R.R. Tolkien and the first appearance of tanks. World War I.
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"Among writers I have always valued those who, in addition to a keen eye for everything visible, have an instinct for the invisible."
~ Ernst Jünger
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"Finally, to banish the desire for individual salvation in the vortex of possible catastrophes. It is more important to behave with dignity. We secure ourselves only on the surface points of a whole that remains hidden from us, and the very evasion that we devise can kill us."
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