Monday, August 18, 2008

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Ernst Jünger and the Lordship of Worker


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By Eduardo Hernando Nieto


a long time ago I wanted to write about one of the most important meta trials published in the twentieth century by the German master Ernst Jünger [1] , "Der Arbeiter. Herrschaft und Gestalt "(" The Worker. Domain and Figure "), the controversial work - as discussed - was rejected both by some leaders of National Socialism as the Communists, however, paradoxically the latter came to checking the work of fascist while for some conservatives was a bet in favor of atheistic materialism.
Finally, and after Jünger comment, it is likely that not many Nazis or the communists would have understood his work precisely because it had nothing to do directly with the quota policy but with the meta. So Junger said about the text and the mythical figure of the worker that "I see in the worker a mythical figure who makes his entry into our world, and issues in the nineteenth century that rely essentially on the economy are not involved in me but in a second line. Ie which has the power in his capacity as Titan has also naturally the money. " [2] In this regard, he added, had left at the age of the Gods and we were in the Titans ie, in the era of power, although those who hold it - said Jünger - try to appear as philanthropists or Marxists. [3]
But, specifically representing the figure of the worker?
Indeed, it was a force that stormed the twentieth century as a distinct alternative to the bourgeois, which in any case never connect with the energy of nature as if could do it "the worker", "the worker has, in effect, a relationship with the elemental powers of whose very existence was never the slightest hint bourgeois" [4] , this also allowed him to obtain a form of freedom very different from the bourgeois, in fact, in the working world of freedom appeared to claim as a claim of work. Definitely
"The Worker" smells a lot of gunpowder from the trenches of the First World War (the book was published in 1932) and is imposed as a demonstration avizoraría overcoming of bourgeois individualism and proletarian socialism, as you said my dear friend, the Mexican essayist José Luis Ontiveros, and that such improvement could only be understood through the way of Nietzsche: "the universalization of nihilism is for a universal art. The worker will join in a single value, the tekne with poiesis, that is, the inventive creation, providing the technical sense of alethia, disclosure, discovery of Being and essence. The work describes the technique of neutral value the bourgeois world had given him to build the happiness of the poor, calls into question the meaning of art as a humanization of the world, in which acclimate the rough to live in the domestic, the lethargy and indolence. The technique is a means of focusing on a doctrine of salvation, teaching the pain score in the will, is a value that must heroizarse, be epic, against the economic conception of bourgeois civilization that restricts the technique to half Suppression of nature. " [5] I totally agree with
Ontiveros, you should consider reading this superb work of Jünger is in the light of the vision of "Konservative Revolution" of the interwar period, and as he saw the delineated Jung worker as a form of development of the Prussian [6] , ie as a figure similar to the Gurrero (mainly at work Vindicated "Storms of Steel"), and somewhat close to anarcho that appears after the "death" of the worker (see this case "emboscadura" or also translated as "The treaty with the rebel.")
The essence of the "Arbeiter" then lay in the possibility of altering the "Zeitgeist" of the Enlightenment and transformed in a radical way thus ending the dictatorship of the area claimed by bourgeois liberalism and Marxist socialism, in front of them stood because the person in charge of recovering the true meaning of the Art, as a revelation or discovery, a new attempt to restore the sacred to the world, a way back in this twilight stage to the origins of the proximity to the Gods, unfortunately, the excitement did not last long because Jüngeriana the abyss modernity had a greater depth than anticipated at the time by Jünger, hence, the emergence of anarchist and the need to act as a "ambushed" while awaiting the end rather not be done.
[1] Later I'll do with Julius Evola and "Riding the Tiger"
[2] Julien boiled, Conversations with Ernst Jünger, Mexico, FCE, 1990, p.62.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ernst Jünger, The Worker, Madrid, Tusquets, 1990, p.25.
[5] José Luis Ontiveros, The Sword and gangrene, Mexico, Mexico State Institute of Culture, 1992, p.77.
[6] Here is a direct relationship with Oswald Spengler, Cf Prussianism and Socialism, Argentina, National and Foreign Editions, 1935. Spengler said: "Although the term refers to the region where it has found a powerful performance and where it has developed a high level, I have to say is this: Prussianism is an understanding of life, an instinct, a spirit of solidarity, is a summary of spiritual qualities and finally body also .. "p.63. ca