ON WAR AND ECSTASY. ERNST JÜNGERS SUBJECTIVATION IN THE BATTLEFIELDS Cover Image

IM KRIEGSRAUSCH. ERNST JÜNGERS SELBSTGEBURT AUS DEM KAMPF
ON WAR AND ECSTASY. ERNST JÜNGERS SUBJECTIVATION IN THE BATTLEFIELDS

Author(s): Joris Löschburg
Subject(s): Military history, German Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Theory of Literature
Published by: Filološki fakultet, Nikšić
Keywords: Ernst Jünger; World War I; Ecstasy; Pain; Transgression; Subject; Subjectivity;

Summary/Abstract: In his writings Ernst Jünger describes World War I as an ecstatic event corresponding with an intensified experience and a genesis of an heroic subject. The article outlines important configurations within the configuration of this subject along Jünger’s criticism of modernity and the affirmation of transgressing the subject.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 61-78
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: German