Håll ett öga på "Sturm" från 1923, som snart komme...

2006-05-26T22:59:00.000+02:00

Håll ett öga på "Sturm" från 1923, som snart kommer i svensk översättning (bokförlaget augusti, www.bfaugusti.se). Den ansluter till flera av aspekterna i "Stahlgewittern" och "Der Kampf..", men med tydliga litterära ambitioner.

Mishima, Sun and Steel will be read in the not to ...

2006-05-25T22:32:00.000+02:00

Mishima, Sun and Steel will be read in the not to distant future and there will most likely be excerpts published from it.

It is an interesting point you bring up, well worth more attention than is comfortable to give it in a comment. Some thoughts however.

1. Carl-Göran Heidegren (http://spoknippet.blogspot.com/2005/08/excerpts-swedish-heidegren-preussiska.html) describes the Weimar years of Ernst Jünger as (among other things) a search for an absolute, a way out of the "ontological state of exception". Jünger starts out as a nationalist but moves away to a quite different position. He "should", however, at this time (1922) still be more of a traditional nationalist. Nevertheless this attitude may be seen as a foretaste of things to come.

2. There is a certain similarity with descisionism here. The action, any action, as opposed to the endless chatter of parliaments and liberals, is good. If we look at Carl Schmitt, perhaps the leading representative of descisionism, he has a great deal of admiration for Lenin and the Bolshevics, because of this despite being a staunch anti-communist.

3. Later in life (around 1950) Jünger got to know the great Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade. Jüngers position here, that the conduct in battle is more important than the goal of the battle, is reminiscent of something Eliade wrote on the traditional view of the hero:

"The Hero, like the Saint don't 'hate' his adversary. Because he don't have anymore an individual criteria. He knows only the objective rules of the struggle and fight, rules that have an correspondence in the objective laws of an oath. And because of this, the Victory of the Hero is a living feeling more than an event. The Hero is 'victorious' during the battle and he will remain full of glory even if the battle will be lost."

(If anybody could assist with a source for the Eliade quote it would be much appreciated.)

An interesting excerpt. The part about "mastering...

2006-05-25T15:35:00.000+02:00

An interesting excerpt. The part about "mastering oneself in death" is somewhat reminiscent of Mishima's Patriotism. Odd, though, the de-emphasis on the idea being fought for--so long as there is an idea.

Also brings to mind, perhaps, Mussolini's quote: "War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."

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Håll ett öga på "Sturm" från 1923, som snart komme...

Mishima, Sun and Steel will be read in the not to ...

An interesting excerpt. The part about "mastering...