There is a blogspot dedicated to Ernst Juenger.
We aspire to an objective, practical understanding of Ernst Jünger's life and works, and encourage other seekers of freedom and self-realisation to join us. Jünger's insights can function as a valuable roadmap to freedom and meaning for individuals in today's social and spiritual landscape. Crucial is his figure of the autonomous and inwardly-free anarch (in contrast to the impotent and self-destructive anarchist) as presented in his important novel EUMESWIL.
See
The Essential Anarch (Quotes on the anarch from Ernst Jünger's
Eumeswil)
"In the Trenches of History: the author Ernst Jünger" - 2019 documentary with English subtitles!(I think Holden would be especially inspired to learn that Ernst Junger had been an avid reader, up all night reading in his youth, which would have a negative imact on his "school performance." Nothing that is so, is so. Maybe great thinkers challenge the entire meritocracy which rewards conformity in thought and behavior.)
While researching
the Eernst Juenger bibliography, I followed a link about his book,
The Forest Passage. On
Library Genesis, it is the only one translated to English.
Ernst Jünger's The Forest Passage explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent thinker can withstand and oppose the power of the omnipresent state. No matter how extensive the technologies of surveillance become, the forest can shelter the rebel, and the rebel can strike back against tyranny. Jünger's manifesto is a defense of freedom against the pressure to conform to political manipulation and artificial consensus. A response to the European experience under Nazism, Fascism, and Communism, The Forest Passage has lessons equally relevant for today, wherever an imposed uniformity threatens to stifle liberty.Praise for The Forest Passage"In a strikingly poetic political statement written soon after the Second World War, Ernst Jünger rejects the two reigning ideologies, democracy and communism, in favor of an individualistic stance anticipating what we now call libertarianism. The ideal that Jünger projects for us is a metaphorical 'passage through the forest' in which we remain constantly put to the test, with the result that we emerge self-sufficient, rebellious, heroic."
—Herbert Lindenberger, Stanford University
"The Forest Rebel says no to power, outwardly unobtrusive but inwardly rebellious and martial, spiritually, politically, and intellectually, an anarch as opposed to an anarchist. Many of the ideas here reflect Germany's geopolitical situation in the Cold War, powerless against the occupiers of East and West. But the treatise transcends the context in which it was born and manifests Jünger's sharp analysis of trends and problems that are as relevant today as ever. Particularly in the age of the mass plebiscite called the internet and as the marriage of the state and technology has given government unprecedented power over its citizens, a book about how to resist modern forms of tyranny is timely and much needed."
—Elliot Neaman, University of San Francisco
"This fascinating work seeks out a place of inner subjective freedom where the besieged citizen of the modern world may withhold consent and refuse participation in the hellish tyranny of administrative totalitarianism. Jünger invites his reader to become a passenger in this forest of thoughtful reflection beyond the reach of political coercion and
conformism."
—Robert Harrison, Stanford University
ISBN 978-0-914386-49-0
Pub. Date: December 1, 2013