War as Inner Experience

In his war diary “Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis” (1926), Jünger glorified the war as a mythical natural event, from which he saw a “new steel-hard blow of man entering the present”. From the horror of the trenches to the sound and fury of the battlefields on the Western front, Jünger celebrates war as a total event belonging to our nature. For him, Man is not destroyed but created by war; he is measured by his capacity to endure pain and sacrifice – if war brings cruel death, it also brings the re-birth of a new Man and of a new world. —- ISBN: 9798311031011 | ISBN10: B0DXFYPMCF | ISBN-13: 979-8311031011