Ernst Jünger’s Ethopoietic Authorship

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_5824
dc.title	Ernst Jünger’s Ethopoietic Authorship
dc.contributor.author	Bosincu Mario
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2021/55/ernst-jungers-ethopoietic-authorship/
dc.description.abstract	Ernst Jünger’s conception of authorship was closely related to a mode of writing designed to transform the reader’s mode of being. In the first phase of his literary activity, his war diaries were intended to teach readers the behaviour patterns enabling them to cope with the dangerous technology irrupting into their life sphere. In Der Arbeiter, he made use of political myths to induce readers to reshape themselves into the cogs of a totalitarian state machinery. After the Second World War, Jünger provided the readers of his books with ancient spiritual exercises in order that they might work on themselves and thereby attain the selfhood which would allow them to resist technological threats.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 55 \| September 2021
dc.issued	2021-07-26
dc.dateAccepted	2021-04-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-03-29
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2021/09/008
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ernst Jünger
dc.subject	Ernst Jünger
dc.subject	Spiritual exercises
dc.subject	Spiritual exercises
dc.subject	Technology
dc.subject	Technology

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Mario Bosincu Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italia

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abstract

Ernst Jünger’s conception of authorship was closely related to a mode of writing designed to transform the reader’s mode of being. In the first phase of his literary activity, his war diaries were intended to teach readers the behaviour patterns enabling them to cope with the dangerous technology irrupting into their life sphere. In Der Arbeiter, he made use of political myths to induce readers to reshape themselves into the cogs of a totalitarian state machinery. After the Second World War, Jünger provided the readers of his books with ancient spiritual exercises in order that they might work on themselves and thereby attain the selfhood which would allow them to resist technological threats.

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July 26, 2021

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April 12, 2021

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March 29, 2021

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Keywords: Ernst Jünger • Spiritual exercises • Technology

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