By Telos Press · Thursday, August 18, 2016 “Fraternity means that the father no longer sacrifices the sons; instead the brothers kill one another. Wars between nations have been replaced by civil war. The great settling of accounts, first under national ‘pretexts,’ led to a rapidly escalating world civil war.” —Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
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By Telos Press · Wednesday, August 10, 2016 “Incidentally, I notice that our professors, trying to show off to their students, rant and rail against the state and against law and order, while expecting that same state to punctually pay their salaries, pensions, and family allowances, so that they value at least this kind of law and order. Make a fist with the left hand and open the right hand receptively—that is how one gets through life.” —Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
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By Telos Press · Thursday, January 7, 2016 Telos Press is delighted to announce that two of its recent book publications, Eumeswil and Sturm, both by Ernst Jünger, have received honorary mentions in the general fiction category in the 2015 London Book Festival. Congratulations to editors Russell A. Berman and David Pan and to Sturm’s translator, Alexis P. Walker!
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By Telos Press · Tuesday, September 1, 2015 Telos Press Publishing is pleased to announce that Ernst Jünger’s Eumeswil is now available for purchase. Order your copy today in our online store.
Eumeswil by Ernst Jünger
Translated by Joachim Neugroschel Edited and with an Introduction by Russell A. Berman
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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