The Violent Eye: Ernst Junger's Visions and Revisions on the European Right

Bullivant, Keith; Bullock, Marcus; Jünger, Ernst

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“…7 in Wolin 2001). To a large extent, this thematic orientation was guided by Heidegger's critical reaction to Ernst Jünger's widely received book The Worker published in 1932 (Zimmerman 1990;Bullock 1992;Morat 2007). Yet, to gauge why Heidegger took exception to Jünger's metaphysical rendering of the figure of the worker (GA90,(263)(264)(265)(266), it is helpful to observe how Heidegger's philosophical commentary on work in the context of national destiny (GA38A,126,151) shows more than a little resemblance to Winthrop's Puritan conception of work as "service" to the body polity of the faithful (Prothero 2012, 41).…”

Section: Covenantal Thinking: Three Puritan Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heidegger as a Colonial Thinker: Puritanism and Germany’s Errand into the Wilderness

Weidler

2023

Critical Research on Religion

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In the turbulent 1930s, Martin Heidegger gave a lecture on “Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language.” Upon close inspection, this text expounds a form of covenantal thinking guided by the Puritan theme of an errand into the wilderness. The proffered analysis shows how Heidegger invokes a poetic conception of colony to reconfigure Germany’s self-image as a culture nation in search of a “new past.” What can be gleaned from this account is a central but neglected link between Heidegger’s thought and colonial discourse, in uneasy proximity to a special form of eschatological racism which divides humanity into spiritual classes marked by varying degrees of fitness for salvation.

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Section: Covenantal Thinking: Three Puritan Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%