FROM A KNIGHT TO A MASS WORKER: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ERNST JÜNGER’S VIEW OF THE FIGHTING INDIVIDUAL
In the article I first examine Ernst Jünger’s thematically structured memoir The Fight as Inner Experience in which he depicts the individual soldier as a committed knightly fighter who is willing to sacrifice his life for an idea. Subsequently I analyze Jünger’s treatise Total Mobilization in whic...
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| Language: | German |
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Babeș-Bolyai University
2022-04-01
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| Series: | Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia |
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| Online Access: | https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/397 |
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| Summary: | In the article I first examine Ernst Jünger’s thematically structured memoir The Fight as Inner Experience in which he depicts the individual soldier as a committed knightly fighter who is willing to sacrifice his life for an idea. Subsequently I analyze Jünger’s treatise Total Mobilization in which a largely different picture of the fighting individual emerges: a conformist member of the working mass who performs unquestioningly tasks assigned to him by the collective. I explain the reasons for “the victory” of the worker over the knight and highlight important shifts in Jünger’s thinking as well as its ambiguities.
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| ISSN: | 2065-9407 |