Ernst Jรผnger, "At the Wall of Time": the "breaking level" and access to the "original fund"

On the occasion of Ernst Jรผnger's birth anniversary (March 29, 1895) we are republishing our article focused on his work At the wall of time previously published in Barbadillo, Eumeswil and Il Centro Tirreno, here slightly revised and expanded.

HP Lovecraft, the New Babel and the advent of the New Dark Age

As some "Sunday critics" say, Lovecraft always put before the alleged racial hatred the viscerally felt horror in the first person towards the advent of the modern world, the empire of machines and total depersonalization, in which every individual and his highest visions are swallowed up and inserted in a cosmic framework of universal tragedy, devoid of any higher outlet. And New York was, of course, raised in the image of the New Babel, which engulfs ancient traditions and human differentiations in a continuous, abject ritual of collective depersonalization, standardization and dehumanization.

Ernst Jรผnger: fear and freedom (from the "Treatise on the rebel")

Ernst Jรผnger was born on March 29, 1895. For the anniversary we want to propose to our readers an extract from his "Treatise on the Rebel" (1951), written exactly seventy years ago, which, read today, appears to be nothing short of disconcerting. What is most striking is the incredible topicality of the German philosopher's analysis and his vision, to say the least, prophetic on what the world would be in what he called the "Age of the Titans", in which we ourselves find ourselves today. to live.

On the shoulders of Jรถtnar: interview with Ylenia Oliverio ("Il Bosco di Chiatri", "Vanatrรบ Italia")

Today we are in the company of Ylenia Oliverio, president of the "Il Bosco di Chiatri" association and above all of the "Vanatrรบ Italia" section, focused on the study and dissemination of the ancient Norse cultic and ritualistic tradition, especially the Seiรฐr and , in fact, Vanatrรบ.

The "Atlantic Crossing" and Ernst Jรผnger's look at Brazil

Jรผngerian chronicles of a 1936 cruise to South America: the fatal element of the Amazonian "Wildnis" emerges from the Brazilian shops of the German philosopher, the "memory of forms" on which the entire Creation and unconditional love for life is based. oceanic element, vector of the "original song of life that is lulling itself over the times".

Devotion: the sunset of the idols and the Waldgรคnger trail

The godless world saw the birth of man. On the desolate battlefield the astonished winner stood up and a naive triumphant grin was printed on his face: the war was perhaps won, the hated enemies defeated, man could finally get out of his lair and march on earth and other creatures. What a joy for the peoples, but what a tragedy for the world! Today, at the "Wall of Time"And al crossroads of history, having broken the order that we have taken for granted too lightly, we are preparing to build new paradigms for the world to come.


โ€œAt the wall of timeโ€: Ernst Jรผnger's prophecies about the Age of the Titans

125 years ago, on March 29, 1895, Ernst Jรผnger, one of the most important and original thinkers of the short century, was born in Heidelberg. Sixty years have passed since the publication of his work "At the wall of time" which, reread today, can only amaze us at the punctuality of the prophecies it contains about the world to come, the world in which we find ourselves living today: from the figure paradigmatic of the "unknown soldier" to the advent of the so-called "mass-man", passing through the phenomenon of the "disappearance of borders" and finally coming to highlight the work of destruction of the natural rhythms in which man has always been inserted, accomplished by means of the "titanism" of Science.

โ€œAt the wall of timeโ€: the question of history and the crisis of the modern world

Ernst Jรผnger's work on cyclical time, published 60 years ago, marks the apex of what was called the "culture of the crisis", a current of thought focused on becoming aware of the drama of History and Historicism and on the image of time as an impetuous flow that overwhelms everything: intuitions that, before Jรผnger, were brought to the surface by Oswald Spengler, Renรฉ Guรฉnon, Julius Evola and Mircea Eliade.

The esoteric futurism of the Russian Cosmists

Cosmism is the miracle of a synthesis that the West knew for the last time in the Renaissance and that took root in the Soviet Russia of the "space race" in the last century: an attitude rather than a real current, a crossroads of experiences and researches ranging from esoteric futurism to transcendental pragmatism, from magical realism to idealistic materialism, from humanism to transhumanism.

We do not live in time, but in "chronospheres"

The chronospheres are psychic experiences and dynamic spacetime events, like concentric circles in the water, they are different frequencies of the passing of time that involve us; if spacetime is like the ocean, the circles in the water are the traces and the different times that unfold and dilate, mixing and overlapping continuously

Towards โ€œTimeWave Zeroโ€: Psychedelia and Eschatology in Terence McKenna

In addition to being one of the "prophets" of the psychedelic Counterculture of the second half of the last century, Terence McKenna was able to build, in the course of thirty years of studies and experiments, a real eschatological system for the Third Millennium, in view of final explosion, based on the recovery of shamanic practices, on a new interpretation of the Sacred as "Mysterium Tremendum" and on the vision, beyond the ordinary dichotomy between life and death, of what he called an "Ecology of Souls".

On the "duende" by Garcรญa Lorca and the "spirit of the earth" by Ernst Jรผnger

A few notes on the correspondences between the duende, "occult spirit of aching Spain" according to Federico Garcรญa Lorca, and the Jรผngerian "spirit of the earth", with some glimpses of Octavio Paz. In the appendix, a full-bodied extract from the text of the Spanish poet.

The "revival" of Astrology in the 900s according to Eliade, Jรผnger and Santillana

The revival of the astrological discipline in the last century has aroused the attention of some of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, who analyzed the phenomenon philosophically and from a mythical-traditional point of view: from Ernst Jรผnger to Mircea Eliade, up to the "Fatalism" by Giorgio de Santillana.

The lonely path of cinnabar

"Misunderstood by friends and enemies, he fought alone against the modern world": this obituary to Julius Evola highlights the 'Promethean-Luciferian' daimon that accompanied him throughout his entire earthly journey, making him a unique thinker in the panorama of ' 900, as clearly emerges from his most autobiographical work, "The journey of the cinnabar", recently reprinted by Edizioni Mediterranee.

Terra Sarda: Ernst Jรผnger's metaphysical Mediterranean

The theater of these incursions is the Mediterranean, here understood in a more than a geographical sense: agora and labyrinth, "lost sea of โ€‹โ€‹the Self", archive and sepulcher, current and destiny, twilight and dawn, Apollonian and Dionysian.