{"id":948,"date":"2010-08-23T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=948"},"modified":"2010-08-23T21:53:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T01:53:55","slug":"ernst-junger-on-apoliteia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Ernst Junger on Apoliteia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ernst<\/a><\/p>\n

The following passages are from Ernst Junger’s philosophical-metahistorical novel Eumeswil<\/em>, a book which complements Julius Evola’s Ride the Tiger<\/em> quite nicely.<\/p>\n

“I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it.\u00a0 Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in. …\u00a0 Thus I take my duties seriously within an overall context that I reject for its mediocrity.\u00a0 The important thing is that my rejection actually refers to the totality and does not take up within it a stance that can be defined as conservative, reactionary, liberal, ironic, or in any way social.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“The lack of ideas or – put more simply – of gods causes an inexplicable moroseness, almost like a fog that the sun fails to penetrate.\u00a0 The world turns colorless; words lose substance, especially when they are to transcend sheer communication. …\u00a0 Loss of history and decay of language are mutual determinants.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Any man who swears allegiance to a political change is a fool, a facchino<\/em> for services that are not his business.\u00a0 The most rudimentary step toward freedom is to free oneself from all that.\u00a0 Basically each person senses it, and yet he keeps voting.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“If and how far a mind penetrates matter, and whether it grasps the crown of the root from which the details branch off – these things are perceived even in practice.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Man should not be the sun’s friend, but the sun itself.\u00a0 And that he is<\/em>; the mistake lies in his failure to recognize his place, his home, and thereby his right.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following passages are from Ernst Junger’s philosophical-metahistorical novel Eumeswil, a book which complements Julius Evola’s Ride the Tiger quite nicely. “I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it.\u00a0 Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,64,6,46],"tags":[232,233],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-literature","category-politics","category-quotes","tag-ernst-junger","tag-eumeswil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}