Ernst Junger - A Different European Destiny

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Ernst Junger - A Different European Destiny

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Venner on Junger

Dominique Venner's Ernst Junger: A Different European Destiny is a biographical and intellectual portrait of one of the twentieth century's most unusual writers. Ernst Junger (1895-1998) was a decorated German soldier in both world wars, a novelist, a diarist, an entomologist, and a philosopher who lived long enough to see the reunification of Germany. Venner, himself a French historian and veteran of the Algerian War, saw in Junger a model for how a European man might live through catastrophe without surrendering to despair or ideology.

A Lens for the Century

The book traces Junger's life chronologically: the trenches of the First World War (described in Storm of Steel), the Weimar years, his complicated relationship with National Socialism, his postwar silence, and his decades of quiet writing in Wilflingen. Venner uses Junger as a lens for reading European history differently. His Junger is not a political figure but a sovereign individual, someone who refused to be reduced to the categories that the twentieth century demanded. Translated from the French, this Arktos Media edition is the only English-language version available.