Eumeswil

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

The English edition of Ernst Jünger's /Eumeswil/ [1977], for a long time 
out of print, has just been reissued as paperback; the original is the 
book my wife and me read out to each other these days.
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  Eumeswil

by Ernst Jünger

Translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Edited and with an Introduction by Russell A. Berman

Also available in Kindle eBook format

/Eumeswil/, ostensibly a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, is 
effectively a comprehensive synthesis of Ernst Jünger’s mature thought, 
with a particular focus on new and achievable forms of individual 
freedom in a technologically monitored and managed postmodern world. 
Here Jünger first fully develops his figure of the anarch, the inwardly 
liberated and outwardly pragmatic individual, who lives peacefully in 
the heart of Leviathan and is yet able to preserve his individuality and 
freedom. Composed of a series of short passages and fragments, 
/Eumeswil/ follows the reflections of Martin Venator, a historian living 
in a futuristic city-state ruled by a dictator known as the Condor. 
Through Venator, the prototypical anarch, Jünger offers a broad and 
uniquely insightful analysis of history from the post-historic 
perspective and, at the same time, presents a vision of future 
technological developments, including astonishingly prescient 
descriptions of today’s internet (the luminar), smartphone (the 
phonophore), and genetic engineering. At once a study of accommodation 
to tyranny and a libertarian vision of individual freedom, /Eumeswil/ 
continues to speak to the contradictions and possibilities inherent in 
our twenty-first-century condition.


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