Ernst Jünger, Theodor Adorno, and the Idea of Natural History

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ID3203733
AuthorsAndrew Mccann (0009-0002-9308-7469, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume51
Issue3
Pages69-97
Publication date2024-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew German Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/0094033x-11309197
OpenAlexW4404749897
LanguageEN
References cited18

This essay sets out an approach to Theodor Adorno's rearticulation of the idea of natural history that foregrounds the undecidable relationship between symbol and allegory. This relationship is the structural condition of Ernst Jünger's writing, from his protofascist journalism of the 1920s through to his postwar work, in which anthropocentric visions of world history are based on perishable symbolic identifications. As this becomes an increasingly prominent part of his thinking, he radicalizes the concept of natural history and, in the idea of planetary history superseding world history, anticipates some of the most topical contemporary work in the environmental humanities

Archaeology · Natural (archaeology) · Natural history · Psychoanalysis · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology

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