"An Indication of Being—Reflections on Heidegger's Engagement with Ernst Jünger"

by Blok, Vincent (2011)

Abstract

In the thirties, Martin Heidegger was heavily involved with the work of Ernst Jünger (1895- 1998). Jünger, who had returned from the First World War as a hero and gone on to become famous as a result of his raw descriptions of the Great War in his novel, In Stahlgewittern, subsequently wrote two essays which had a great influence on Heidegger: Die totale Mobilmachung from 1930 and Der Arbeiter from 1932. Heidegger remarks that because of his reading of Jünger, he had, very early, already seen what was much later to be confirmed …

Keywords

Heidegger, Jünger, Phenomenology, War, Warfare, Being, Gestalt, Mobilization

Themes

On Jünger, On Heidegger

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• https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2011.11006739
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2011.11006739
• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00071773.2011.11006739?casa_token=Chs31ycO-csAAAAA:GUhjv1DszpHXOtrUiPqwpPdj5q9QgRNrM0KISYV0_7V9vs9ABacukcDdo-32rQnQfGlhg72_1fUZUw

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