Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.
Ernst JüngerStichwörter: freedom liberalism anarchy ernst-jünger anarch
The anarch nurtures no expectations. He stakes on no one but himself. Basically, people remain pied pipers, whatever melodies they play to introduce themselves. And as for the rats - that is a chapter unto itself.
Ernst JüngerStichwörter: self-reliance ernst-jünger anarch
Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.
Ernst JüngerStichwörter: history hope social-change ernst-jünger
The anarch's study of the history of the caesars has more of a theoretical significance for him - it offers a sampling of how far rulers can go. In practice, self-discipline is the only kind of rule that suits the anarch. He, too, can kill anyone (this is deeply immured in the crypt of his consciousness) and, above all, extinguish himself if he finds himself inadequate.
Ernst JüngerStichwörter: suicide ernst-jünger self-discipline anarch caesarism
It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly fair. But at least people saw temples instead of termite architecture. Bliss is drawing closer; it is no longer in the afterlife, it will come, though not momentarily, sooner or later in the here and now - in time.
The anarch thinks more primitively; he refuses to give up any of his happiness. "Make thyself happy" is his basic law. It his response to the "Know thyself" at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. These two maxims complement each other; we must know our happiness and our measure.
Stichwörter: politics happiness self-knowledge ernst-jünger anarch
The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule.
Ernst JüngerStichwörter: freedom ernst-jünger anarch
I begin with the respect that the anarch shows towards the rules. Respectare as an intensive of respicere means: ‘to look back, to think over, to take into account.’ These are traffic rules. The anarchist resembles a pedestrian who refuses to acknowledge them and is promptly run down. Even a passport check is disastrous for him.
‘I never saw a cheerful end,’ as far back as I can look into history. In contrast, I would assume that men who were blessed with happiness – Sulla, for example – were anarchs in disguise.
Stichwörter: society anarchism ernst-jünger anarch civil-obediance
Wir schaffen unsere eigene Welt – und was wir erfahren ist nicht Zufall. Dinge werden zu uns durch unsere Veranlagung hervorgebracht, - die Welt ist so wie wir sind.” STRAHLUNGEN (1949). 47.
Ernst JüngerStichwörter: ernst-jünger
Die grossen Gedanken entspringen im Herzen, und scheitern an der Welt. GESAMT WERKE. Band 17.
Ernst JüngerStichwörter: ernst-jünger
Du kannst nicht zu einem Brunnenfrosch vom Ozean sprechen. GESAMT WERKE. Band 2
Ernst JüngerStichwörter: ernst-jünger
« erste vorherige
Seite 5 von 6.
nächste letzte »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.