에른스트 윙거의 1차 대전 전쟁일기와 ‘노동자’

Abstract

This essay tries to present alternative interpretations of the works, which Ernst Jünger Scholars wort during the Weimar Republic, based on an analyzing his First World War diary. I found in his diary some symptoms of the war neurosis and identified the most frequently uttered emotion, “unhomely(unheimlich)”. I interpreted the findings as indicator for his failure to assign the war experiences cultural and hisotrical meanings and to integrate his experiences into a coherent narrative and an healthy self. This failure was reiterated in his famous novel In Storms of Steel. His comrades community of soldiers war just a vacant formula while soldiers were presented as images based on the bourgeoisie value and emotion of honour. Although he successfully embodied the front generation as a “New Race” in War as an inner Experience of 1922, solipsistic nature of the subject hardly disappeared. Even in The Worker: Dominion and Form the bourgeoisie figure repeated itself. Ernst Jünger is to be interpreted as a nihilistic, voluntaristic, actionist, violent bastard version of liberalism.