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“Historical names are now only valid in reserve, like classical physics or conventional warfare. Things change without our knowledge. The walls within which our vocabulary still holds sway have closed in on us. Poetry confirms this. It also testifies to something greater, something other than the beginning of a new historical era, a period that can be compared to others in history.” ~ Ernst Jünger

"Léon Bloy's effect on Ernst Jünger presents an extraordinary problem. For Jünger could only approach Bloy, the ‘pariah’ with his wild hatred of Protestants, Prussians, and Germans, by overcoming the most violent disgust. But Léon Bloy's diaries are also prototypical, I could even say constitutive for the 'diary' as a type, because in one fell swoop they leave the romantic-impressionistic soul-searching behind, they place the confusion of 'radiations' and 'reflections' beyond doubt and lend a condition to the aphorism that is otherwise scattered into nothingness." ~ Carl Schmitt

"There is a historical Christ, but no historical Jupiter." ~ Ernst Jünger

"Herodotus, from the historical space he had entered, turned around and saw the mythical space. He did so with fear. The same fear is necessary today, when beyond the wall of time the future looms." ~ Ernst Jünger, At the Wall of Time https://juengertranslationproject.substack.com/p/at-the-time-wall-ernst-junger-589

"The victors were mistaken, for their victory by arms did not protect them from the crises that plagued them as a whole and which gave the post-war period its character. The term "post-war" expresses what happened here. Even victory was undermined." ~ Friedrich Georg Jünger

"Jünger declared he appreciated that "All Quiet" was a "camouflage" in that it created the opinion that Germany was dominated by internationalism and pacifism." Why I Wrote "The Storm of Steel" - Ernst Jünger https://juengertranslationproject.substack.com/p/why-i-wrote-the-storm-of-steel-ernst?utm_campaign=reaction&utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack&utm_content=post

"Fear and laziness, which Benjamin Constant recognises as his essence, are still possible sources of philosophical knowledge, whereas mere fear of physical pain seems to me a question without a horizon, as does all so-called materialist-sensuous metaphysics. A passage from Constant's Red Notebook is very interesting: "I am so lazy and so curious... I remain wherever fate throws me until I make a connection that places me in a completely different realm." I see that liberal theories, however interesting they may be, such as those of Hobbes or Constant, are not the work of purely liberal people. Fear, as Hobbes says, is its essence (he was born in 1588, when the Spanish Armada was approaching England, where there was terrible panic; in his autobiography he tells us that his mother then gave birth to twins, he and fear — or anxiety? — metus geminos paruit, meque metumque simul)" ~ Schmitt on pain, Letter to Jünger, 1934

“Faith is the most delicate core of life; it is the condition of every living and creative power.” ~ Friedrich Georg Jünger

"Capitalist society is death organized with all the appearances of life. Here it is not a question of death as the extinction of life, but death-in-life, death with all the substance of power of life. The human being is dead and is no more than a ritual of capital." ~ Jacques Camatte

Jacques Camatte's collection of essays, This World We Must Leave. One of the most underrated political thinkers. Buy on Amazon

Friedrich Georg Jünger’s The Failure of Technology (Die Perfektion der Technik,1946) was written under the shadow of World War II – the threat of a German sky black with enemy aircraft that splattered fire and death on the burnt-out caves of industrial man. “Lava, ashes, fumes, smoke, night-clouds lit up by fire” – the landscape of twentieth-century man erupts, in Jünger’s pages, like a volcano returning man’s boasted artifacts to that first wilderness that stretched back beyond the age of the gods. This book is the sombre meditation of a poet who has looked into chaos, even into hell, and who has not flinched. Reprint. Buy on amazon.

"Carl Schmitt died on Easter Sunday, 1985. A good date, not only for a Christian." ~ Ernst Jünger

Originally published in 1920, The Storm of Steel is a first-hand account of World War I trench combat lifted from the diaries of Ernst Jünger, a German infantryman who would become one of Europe’s most talented writers. The book was first translated into English in 1929 by Basil Creighton, the acclaimed translator of many other classic works of German literature, and was widely hailed as a masterpiece. The Storm of Steel remains the definitive account of World War I, following Jünger through several major engagements as he develops from an eager young soldier into a battle-hardened officer. Both memoir and essay, Copse 125 is an engaging and philosophical meditation on the nature of modern warfare in the era of the First World War, through a sustained and unified account of one aspect and episode, the battle at Rossignol Wood in France. Buy on amazon.

"An outstanding American politician decides, with an involuntary metaphysical force, for the political unity of the world, while until recently a philosophical pluralism seemed to determine the actual worldview of North America." ~ Carl Schmitt

"Spengler's universalism is an imperialist annexation of the past, excavation as triumph and conquest." ~ Carl Schmitt

"Spengler's universalism is an imperialist annexation of the past, excavation as triumph and conquest." ~ Carl Schmitt