Visions of a Technological World

Ernst Jünger's essayistic writings always aim at bringing large-scale developments, which he often referred to as “planetary movements,” into conceptual focus. Poetic in style and visionary in ambition, works like The Total Mobilization (1930) and The Worker (1932) resist however the methodological and systematic expectations of academic philosophy and attempt to “see” the mechanisms behind the world of appearances. In the crisis of modern subjectivity and bourgeois society, Jünger sought the dawn of a new age whose outlines his essays tried to articulate. In the final years of the Weimar Republic, which the conservative revolutionary despised, Jünger described what he

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