On Pain

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On Pain i Ernst Jünger
"With this superbly introduced and meticulously translated edition of On Pain, scholars will have access to a key Jünger text, which demonstrates his uncanny ability not only to analyze the ruptures and crises brought about by modernity in his day, but also to anticipate world-historical phenomena that critical social theory still grapples with in the twenty-first century."
—Elliot Neaman, Professor of History, University of San Francisco
Written and published in 1934, a year after Hitler's rise to power in Germany, Ernst Jüngers On Pain is an astonishing essay that announces the rise of a new metaphysics of pain in a totalitarian age. One of the most controversial authors of twentieth-century Germany, Jünger rejects the liberal values of liberty, security, ease, and comfort, and seeks instead the measure of man in the capacity to withstand pain and sacrifice. Jünger heralds the rise of a breed of men who — equipped with an unmatched ability to treat... Tovább

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On Pain i Ernst Jünger
"With this superbly introduced and meticulously translated edition of On Pain, scholars will have access to a key Jünger text, which demonstrates his uncanny ability not only to analyze the ruptures and crises brought about by modernity in his day, but also to anticipate world-historical phenomena that critical social theory still grapples with in the twenty-first century."
—Elliot Neaman, Professor of History, University of San Francisco
Written and published in 1934, a year after Hitler's rise to power in Germany, Ernst Jüngers On Pain is an astonishing essay that announces the rise of a new metaphysics of pain in a totalitarian age. One of the most controversial authors of twentieth-century Germany, Jünger rejects the liberal values of liberty, security, ease, and comfort, and seeks instead the measure of man in the capacity to withstand pain and sacrifice. Jünger heralds the rise of a breed of men who — equipped with an unmatched ability to treat themselves and others in a cold and detached way—become one with new, terrorizing machines of death and destruction in human-guided torpedoes and manned airborne missiles, and whose "peculiarly cruel way of seeing," resembling the insensitive lens of a camera, anticipates the horrors of World War II. With a preface by Russell A. Berman and an introduction by translator David C. Durst, this remarkable essay not only provides valuable insights into the cult of courage and death in Nazi Germany, but also throws light on the ideology of terrorism today.
Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) was born in Heidelberg. He served in the German Army during World War I. Jüngers war memoir, Storm of Steel, offers a gripping account of his experiences. He was an outspoken conservative critic of the Weimar Republic. In 1939, Jüngers novel On the Marble Cliffs provided an allegorical critique of Hitler's regime. One of the most controversial writers of twentieth-century Germany, Jünger received many literary prizes. He died at the age of 102. Vissza