Summary
Written in 1932, just before the fall of the Weimar Republic and on the eve of the Nazi accession to power, Ernst Jünger’s The Worker: Dominion and Form articulates a trenchant critique of bourgeois liberalism and seeks to identify the form characteristic of the modern age. Jünger’s analyses, written in critical dialogue with Marx, are inspired by a profound intuition of the movement of history and an insightful interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy.Martin Heidegger considered Jün…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780810136175 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0810136171 |
| Author: | Ernst Jünger |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Imprint: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2017 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
“This translation of Ernst Jnger’s
“The twentieth century was marked by revolutions, horrors, and profound changes that still puzzle us and haunt our self-understanding. Anyone wanting to understand those events, as well as the present that has emerged out of them, needs to read Jünger’s The Worker and to take seriously the ‘new reality’ it wants to make visible. One welcomes the appearance of this landmark of twentieth century thought in English: Jünger’s remarkable literary style is well served by this translation.” –Dennis J. Schmidt, author of Idiome der Wahrheit (Idioms of Truth) and Between Word and Image“This excellent translation of Ernst Jünger’s most important book is a signal event for scholars of twentieth century European literature, culture, politics, and philosophy. In particular, Jünger’s interpretation of the Gestalt of the worker helped to shape Martin Heidegger’s influential view of modern technology.” –Michael E. Zimmerman, author of Heidegger’s Confrontation with Modernity “This translation of Ernst Jünger’s The Worker is long overdue, and the startling re-emergence of many political themes from the 1930s makes it especially timely. Costea and Hemming have done an excellent job at making this influential and important work finally accessible to English readers.” –Jeff Malpas, author of Heidegger’s Topology
About The Author
Ernst Jünger
ERNST JÜNGER (1895-1998) was a German novelist and essayist perhaps best known to English-speaking audiences for Storm of Steel, based on his experience as a German soldier in World War I.
LAURENCE PAUL HEMMING is a professor at Lancaster University in the Management School and in the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion. He is the author of Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism and Heidegger’s Atheism: The Refusal of a Theological Voice.
BOGDAN COSTEA is a professor at Lancaster University Management School in the Department of Organisation, Work, and Technology. He is an editor (with Laurence Paul Hemming and Kostas Amiridis) of The Movement of Nihilism: Heidegger’s Thinking after Nietzsche.
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