![]() ![]() But Jünger kept his distance from the Nazis. Joseph Goebbels also tried to recruit him into the Nazi Party. Hitler greatly admired this activist soldier-writer, and after the Nazis came to power Jünger was offered a seat in the Reichstag and in the German Academy of Poetry. Jünger’s intimate contacts with the Nazis did not help his reputation. And he wrote many tracts defending martial and aristocratic ideals. Jünger was also chastised for supporting the militarist right during the chaotic interwar years. He was quickly criticized for extolling war and violence. In Stahlgewittern (Storm of Steel) was the most famous. He was a highly decorated soldier in World War I and parlayed his experiences into several best-selling books. Ernst Jünger was a man of the right whose life and ideas were and remain controversial, especially with the liberal academic-literary establishment.Ĭontroversy began soon after the start of Jünger’s writing career. Language is one reason, politics the other. Telos has been actively promoting Jünger because he is an important modern writer who has received little recognition in the English-speaking world despite his massive output. The book, first published in 1977, has been reissued by Telos Press, which has already republished four of Jünger’s other works. ![]() Throughout his long career he wrote novels, essays, memoirs, travelogues, and political tracts that examined the meaning of the massive social changes of that most violent century. Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) was twentieth-century Germany’s most prolific writer. ![]()
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