Eumeswil (Ernst Jünger) 

An excellent and concise overview of the subject matter. I throughly enjoyed this as a fan of Ernst Jünger.

Great work here

I've been lingering around your site for a couple of weeks now, had no idea you also had a RU-vid Channel. Nice

I was intrigued by your reference to M. John Harrison's Pastel City. When reading "Eumeswil" or "Heliopolis", I always thought of the pastel city with its rusty deserts and metal swamps. However, it is rather unlikely that a German reader is familiar with these different texts, because science fiction is still considered the brothel of literature in the circles concerned.

I reread Eumeswil recently, and it hit my that the Anarch is just a bugman that lacks self awareness. Devoid of any attachment to others, God, or reality. Obsessed with the cartesian "secret-self" and free, only in his own mind.

Nice one! I agree, this is most definitely not a libertarian book. But I can see how one would see it that way. This is how I see it "Here in the real life, as the people demand some kind of assurance in this post modern world, call for justice, equality and liberty as well as other words stripped of their original meaning are made. Eumeswil makes no promises, no reassurances no solution for the general population. And in this sense too, it is a book like no other, but just might be the one we need now more than ever. In short, the novel is a perfect portrait of the twenty first century. Men who have become so domesticated, and demoralized that they degenerated into a state of spiritual malaise, while at the same time demanding that their needs be granted to them. As you can see, the solution provided by junger via Eumeswil has a very aristocratic elitism attached to it. For better or for worse it seems that the last men cannot be saved. Nevertheless, Eumeswil is will to humanity on the individual level. Rejecting the paradoxically collectivist nature of libertarianism, afteerall, the story never calls for less government overreach, while at the same time rejecting help from ideology and state lest one subjugate himself to them such that one loses first the need to think for himself and then the ability to do so. " In other words, any kind of system no matter how individualistic from Ayn Rand's objectivism to your bread and butter libertarianism is more collectivist insofar as it promotes a collective degree of less government overreach.

fantastic review

The 1st thing that one has to understand is that Junger was not Anglo-Saxon. He did not share Anglo-Saxon's mindless cult of liberalism and individualism. Germans are more collective-oriented and often despised Anglo-American cult of the individual. See Oswald Spengler's writings.