Ernst Jünger

Do you agree with his views on war?

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summarize them?

Any insight is appreciated. I'm writing an essay.

I misunderstood your reply. I'm having a hard time putting it into words and I'll definitely misrepresent them but here are some quotes from wikipedia anyway:
>"Jünger rejects the liberal values of liberty, security, ease, and comfort, and seeks instead the measure of man in the capacity to withstand pain and sacrifice."
>"In Storm of Steel, he portrayed war as a mystical experience that revealed the nature of existence."
Even though he has a very positive view on war, he still acknowledges the horrors of it.

So he's basically a nazi version of the judge? Well then, yes, I agree with it all.

Yes I see, I browsed wiki and saw some of his views now.

I think he is silly/crazy for romanticizing war, after the war/s(?) he was in, he lived a long influential life, I read that he wrote over 50 books, and was a botonist and zoologist, and poet, so to celebrate something that could have so easily killed him, as it did to the many around him, is quite foolish, would he really have given up all his potential life after the wars, for the thrill of war?

I guess its different now adays because paintball exists.

I think war only exists in the minds of madmen and it is up to sane men to hope and work toward it staying there, unfortunately it is possible at any given time there may be quite high number of the former.

If people want to have war, a massive stadium or island should be reserved for those who want to have their mystical experience.

I mean the world wars were crazy, that they occurred, all wars really, massive brawl,

I understand the potential intrigue, the gamble, the competition, the thrill, the contest, the purpose and meaning, the excitement, but I do not think there is any good reason, any person, should be compelled to go to war, in this day and age, in which so much can be seen so clearly, in which so much sense exists and can be made, etc.

Did you really just write a longass post about your views on an author that you only know from wikipedia?

I dont think Junger himself agreed with his early views on war. He wrote Storm of Steel when he looked like OP pic, and died in 1998.

In the meantime he wrote:
The Glass Bees, where he mourns the loss of brotherhood and glamour of battle, but at the same time understands that those glories didnt really exist, and that men grow older and mature and are rarely excepting himself at the worlds worst job interview exposed to life and death situations that generate the glorious view of brothers in arms.

The Marble Cliffs, where he realizes that the piece and security of living in nature and traditional faith are somewhat better than glorious war, and absolutely better than the mechanisms of the state in the person of the absolutist 20th century autocrat and the horrors he imposes on peace and serenity.

Eumswil, where he self inserts himself as a veteran who no longer defines himself by conflict but by an inner search for his own identity while drinking

Junger matured as a writer and as a human being, while remaining a traditionalist, he also became immensely jaded.

you sound like a fag

Made me want to read more of his works, thanks user!